Hooded Woman Seated Facing the Wall

细节

Santiago Sierra (b. 1966)
Hooded Woman Seated Facing the Wall
black and white photograph
59 x 86 5/8in. (150 x 220cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is from an edition of six

来源

Lisson Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

荣誉呈献

Beatriz Ordovás

bordovas@christies.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7389 2920

拍品专文

This performance took place in the physical location of the Spanish Pavilion interior, with no audience, on 1 May 2003. For an hour, a woman wearing a black hood remained seated, still and in silence. This work, which the artist documented in photographs and on video, dwelt on the idea of labour as a technology of domination and punishment, bearing witness to the violence of disciplinary processes and the objectualising power of money. The iconographic connections with Goya's works, and with torture by the Inquisition, link up with many other contemporary iconological references.