The centerpiece of this exhibition is Partners (The Teddy Bear Project, 2002), a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles composed of over 3,000 family -
album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.
Composed of over 3,000 family -
album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears, Hendeles's project establishes the teddy bear as a metaphor for the consolatory power of artworks and images and underscores the symbiotic relationship that ties people to their objects of affection.
The centerpiece of the book is a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles, composed of over 3,000 family -
album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.
Not exact matches
The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies
of fictitious
persons, collections
of found and anonymous
photographs, film versions
of photographic
albums, and photomontages composed
of historical
photographs.
Cloar was a nationally known painter who focused his work on surreal views portraying childhood memories
of natural scenery, buildings, and
people, often working from old
photographs found in his family
albums.
As a kind
of «artist's book» within the publication, Cruzvillegas contributes 60 pages filled with artwork, poems,
album covers, drawings, and
photographs of people and places that inspire him.