- The creation of Third Pieces of silver is inspired by Cornelia Parker’s childhood love for the cartoon “Death”. It collects silver from different ways and periods, “deprived of their third dimension on the same day”. They are then formed into thirty separate groups and suspended on the ground a few inches away. Parker explained when the work was first exhibited at Hayward Gallery in London in 1990, “The destroyed objects are ghostly, suspended above the floor, waiting to be re evaluated according to their changes.”
Perpetual Canon is a musical term that means repetition. When the author was invited to create for the circular space, she had the idea of a mute band. The squashed 60 tubas, trumpet and a bulky Susa tuba were squashed into a plane. She arranged these objects into flat asteroids and ran the chandelier around an orbit. “Old instruments have experienced thousands of breaths circulating on them throughout their lives. They were crushed when they were squeezed out of their last breath.” The shadow on the wall replaced the flat instrument and played silently.
But my personal favorite is Cold Dark Matter. This work takes the war explosion as the inspiration center, presenting a freeze frame picture of the explosion instant. I personally think that this work can really feel its charm only in space. Extending outward from the extremely bright spot in the center, the space is suspended with the most ordinary and trivial things in daily life, and the outermost layer is the long pieces of broken wood that burst into a frenzy in the air. The shadow of these things is reflected on the wall, as if he is in the room of explosion. The whole work is very dynamic, as if you can feel the scene in front of you when you feel that you are going to die in the next second under the strong explosion moment, everything slowly stops, and your mind starts to put up the riding lantern.
