Fancy a night inside one of Andrea Hasler's fleshy tents? The London-based artist, known for creating stomach-churning works of art, has recently opened an exhibition entitled "Embrace the Base" at the Corn Exchange Newbury & New Greenham Arts.
Her show features a pair of slimy-looking, life-sized tents, which New Greenham Arts commissioned her to create for Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. For those who don't know, Greenham Common is the former site of England's Royal Air Force Station, where the British kept nuclear weapons during the early 1980s. Thousands of women would gather and establish a peace camp in Greenham Common to protest the British government's decision to store cruise missiles there. Inspired by the location's history, Hasler created her unconventional tents as a way to contextualize the struggles and emotions experienced by these protesters during the 1980s.
“Metaphorically I am taking the notion of the tents which were on site during the Women’s Peace Camp, as the container for emotions," Hasler said. "It’s almost like I am taking the fabric of the tent, the sort of the nylon element of the tent, and I make … this skin layer as sort of the container for emotion …”
Like her tents, her other sculptures share the same fleshy texture, resembling clumps of raw meat with arms and legs. Hasler's "Embrace the Base" is currently being displayed at Corn Exchange Newbury & New Greenham Arts until April 11.
[via DesignTaxi]
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