Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon

Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon

Cornelia ParkerWW-1997-223255
1997·Glass, wire, card and wood·displayed: 630 x 630 x 41 mm, 8.2 kg

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Year
1997
Dimensions
displayed: 630 x 630 x 41 mm, 8.2 kg
Collection
Tate

Artist

Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker

Sculpture

Cornelia Parker is a British sculptor who transforms everyday materials and historical objects into interventions that reveal hidden narratives and violence. Working across sculpture, installation, and video, she dismantles, explodes, or reconstitutes found objects, examining how material traces carry memory and trauma. Her work engages with catastrophe, mortality, and the spaces between absence and presence, often employing strategies of destruction and reconstruction to unsettle conventional readings of form and time. This profile will be expanded as more verified source material becomes available.

Cheshire, UK

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Year
1997
Dimensions
displayed: 630 x 630 x 41 mm, 8.2 kg
Watts ID
WW-1997-223255

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Artist

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker

Sculpture

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