
The Nature of the Beast
Catalogue
- Year
- 2019
- Dimensions
- composition (each): 11 15/16 × 16" (30.4 × 40.7 cm); sheet (each): 17 × 20 1/16" (43.2 × 51 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Sharon Hayes
Artist

Mixed Media
Sharon Hayes is an American artist working across performance, video, and installation to examine the rhetoric of political speech and public address. Her practice frequently deploys her own voice and body as material, staging interventions that investigate how language constructs meaning in spaces of protest, commemoration, and collective memory.
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More by Sharon Hayes
Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It's Time For Love?
2007 · 5 Spray paints on paper
Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It 's Time for Love?
2007 · Five-channel public address system sound installation and five spray paint posters on paper
Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It 's Time for Love?
2007 · Sound, five speakers
The Interpreter Project
2001 · Four-channel video (color, sound; 60 min.), eighty-one 35mm color slides, and table
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Sharon Hayes
- Year
- 2019
- Dimensions
- composition (each): 11 15/16 × 16" (30.4 × 40.7 cm); sheet (each): 17 × 20 1/16" (43.2 × 51 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2019-M125114
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified



