テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「🌹 ’It just becomes like a dream. These things live in our memory, or not.’ British artist Anya Gallaccio creates site-specific installations that often include organic matter (like chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice). She is part of the generation of Young British Artists or YBAs who were known in 1990s for their openness to materials and processes, as well as their shock tactics. Many of them studied at Goldsmiths College together - Gallaccio studied there from 1985-88 and showed work in the 1988 exhibition ‘Freeze’ organised by Damien Hirst. Gallaccio’s use of organic materials creates an unpredictability in her work, as they often change over the time they are exhibited. In this work ‘preserve ‘beauty’’, 2,000 bright red flowers were arranged underneath large panes of glass. The type of flower is a hybrid between a gerbera and a daisy that is known by the name ‘beauty’. Behind the glass, the flowers recall still-life and romantic landscape paintings, as well as flower arranging and pressing. While they’re displayed, the flowers wither and die - viewers are able to see and smell the decay process. This makes her work very difficult to document, and challenges the traditional idea that art should be a monument that lasts forever in a museum. Instead, her work lives through the memory of those who experienced it. And there’s the added benefit of not having to find storage space for all her work, a common problem for artists that Gallaccio thinks she ‘bypassed very smartly’, and also feels means the work is ‘more in the present, more in the moment.’ 🥀 Anya Gallaccio, preserve ‘beauty’, 1991 ➡️ swipe to see how the work changes © Anya Gallaccio, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York」2月24日 2時47分