Pam Hall : The Coil : a History in Four Parts 1988 - 1993
St John's, Newfoundland: Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994.
Paperback. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #17063
ISBN: 0889012563
1/2" spine tear, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize stiff card paperback. ; Exhibition catalog of Pam Hall installation art in five locations 1994-1995. "The Coil is the protagonist in a narrative the artist is "writing." It (or she as Hall refers to the Coil) comes into the story with a pre-history made of its physical origin, as a cod trap, and its symbolic assocations for Hall. These ... include cycles of birth and death, fecundity, ritual, the relationship of humanbs and nature. The narrative proceeds as the artist works with the Coil at various outdoor locations across Canada and in Japan: the Coil acquires its own history, with each site providing both the setting and the source for a direct encounter with the physical worl and, at the same time, forming "chapters" in an unfolding biography. It is a history of incidents, accidents, relationshps and accretions from the sites and cultures in which it temporarily rests: Shinto religious practices, ancient rock formations in the Alberta badlands, tools of the fishing trade, clear cut evidence of exploitation of nature." - Patricia Grattan. ; 56 pages.
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