A still from Parker’s film War Machine, featuring the paper rolls used to make commemorative poppies
“Cornelia Parker is renowned for her ability to transform the most familiar objects into unfamiliar forms, and often by the most forceful of means. She has stretched bullets into lengths of wire, made drawings using explosives, flattened brass instruments with a steam roller and—most famously—in 1991 she blew up a garden shed and then meticulously suspended its fragments in a constellation-cum-swarm around a single light bulb, under the title Cold Dark Matter. This is now owned by the Tate and features in a major survey of Parker’s work which heralds the reopening of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, where it is accompanied by new commissions created from the red fabric used to make commemorative poppies and the revolutionary new form of carbon developed in Manchester, graphene”.@ The Art Newspaper
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