Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978, Hamilton, Canada)

Soft Measures: Strait

Date2018

MediumCarved granite and cotton

Dimensions165 11/16 x 56 5/16 x 3 7/8 in. (420.9 x 143 x 9.9 cm)

Credit LineMarieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Object numberR2025.35

ClassificationsSculpture

Not on view

DescriptionBased off the fact that Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2 cm per year, scientists suggest that a supercontinent, so-called Pangaea Ultima, will form with Europe slipping underneath Africa. The installation imagines speculative fictions getting stretched thin through a perspective of deep geological time. Monumental curtains meet, as tectonic planes might, whilst additional elements incorporating rocks and matter further probe the underlying thematic currents of the work. In this way the artworks become protagonists that operate as tectonic plates, independent but moving along one another - pushing closer or pulling away. (https://tanjawagner.com/works/kapwani-kiwanga-soft-measures-2018/)
Exhibitions

Hessel Collection 2027 ( - )