Stoning
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"Throwing stones at man-made objects, or dropping boulders on them, is not like May ‘68; it’s not even an echo. For me, it is more like a mimetic re- enactment of nature." [full text here]
Stoning is an essential category in Jimmie Durham’s work. It simply denotes the action of using a stone as a tool in the making of an artwork: smashing, printing, destroying...
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Brazilian Bloodstone
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Brazilian Bloodstone. Video.
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Tocetea
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Tocetea, 2003. Video, dvd, 00:00:26.
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Where a heavy stone opene...
Jimmie Durham, Where a heavy stone opened red, yellow and blue paint, 2006. Painting, paint, tubes, canvas, 100 x 120 cm.
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A Stone Asleep in Bed at ...
Jimmie Durham, A Stone Asleep in Bed at Home, 2000. Installation, grey granite, cotton, chestnut wood, pinewood, 200 x 155 x 101 cm.
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in Ne