Representative work by Cornelia Parker
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Cornelia Parker

b. 1956, Cheshire, England · British

Cornelia Parker transforms familiar objects through explosion, crushing, suspension and forensic processes. Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View suspended the fragments of a garden shed blown apart by the British Army, freezing destruction into a seemingly weightless constellation.

Sculpture; installation; drawing

Major Works

  • 1991Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
  • 1988–89Thirty Pieces of Silver
  • 1997Mass (Colder Darker Matter)
  • 1995The Maybe
  • 2004Perpetual Canon
  • 1992Neither From Nor Towards
  • 2015War Room
  • 2016Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
  • 2015Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
  • 2013Black Path (Bunhill Fields)

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