Public Artwork
Inhabited by a spirit...
Artwork creator(s):
Fernandes, Michael
Text author(s):
Fernandes, Michael
Installation year:
1991 Description:
Photographic image on a billboard
Text of the artwork:
Inhabited by a spirit --- worshipped by Savages
other text present (identification function) on the panel's artwork
IN CONTROL --- SPONSORED BY ARTCITE ARTIST: MICHAEL FERNANDES
History:
In Control, billboard project by artists, organized by ARTCITE, Windsor, ON. Commissioner: Lorenzo Buj.
Event date(s):
1991 Note(s):
"It is not one of the countless hands that litter Western cultural imaginary: the hands of Lascaux; the hand of languid Adam high in heaven's rare air; the hand that conceal the genitals of an aboriginal couple in a mythological garden, etc. But it shares their air. It is full of grace and fair regard, like Adam's once, and possessed by a puissance old; Inhabited by a spirit. A phrase that reaches for a submerged semantic parallel with another text positioned to the right of the upraised, instrumental, phallic thumb, symbol and working digit of man's nearness and distance from other primates (term also used pontifically, religiously): worshipped by savages."
--Lorenzo Buj, from the catalogue essay to IN CONTROL
Artist's biography:
Fernandes, Michael Document(s):
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