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For tropos, Ann Hamilton spread a sea of horsehair across the 5000 square feet of a factory building. Varying in color and sewn together in bundles, this hair was navigated by visitors, while in the middle of the room sat a lone figure at a desk, whose task was to read and burn each line of a text in a book; from somewhere outside the building came the strangulated garble of a man attempting speech. This surreal environment, with its attendant sense of dream landscape and half-formed associations, is classic Hamilton, at once seductive and disorienting. This book records the project.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Dia Art Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780944521274
- Publication date
- 1993
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 150 pages
- Dimension
- 7 x 10 in.
- Publication credits
- Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Marina Warner, Bruce Ferguson, and Dave Hickey
Related Exhibitions

Exhibition
Ann Hamilton: tropos
October 7, 1993–June 19,1994, Dia Chelsea
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