ICA Collection: Entangled in the Everyday
The thirteenth installment of the ICA鈥檚 annual collection exhibition presents major works that showcase artists鈥� engagement and entanglement with the everyday. Interest in common materials and quotidian subjects has been a defining theme of artistic practice in the 20th century, inspiring Cubist collage, found sculpture, and the widespread embrace of photography. By observing and being in the world, artists elevate and make significant ordinary textures and experiences.
Rooms dedicated to materials and process celebrate artists鈥� capacity to elicit the wondrous from the mundane. Works from Tara Donovan鈥檚 tape installation Nebulous to Dami谩n Ortega鈥檚 explosion of a 35mm camera to Nari Ward鈥檚 wrapped and adorned shopping cart Savior highlight the transformative use of common and found materials. Others incorporate everyday actions such as knotting, wrapping, or tying into their artistic practice, as in Lynda Benglis鈥檚 knot sculpture Sierra and Sheila Hicks鈥檚 stacked bundles of thread in Banisteriopsis II. Finally, portraiture鈥攁 noted strength in the ICA鈥檚 collection鈥攆orms a third means of exploring the everyday within the exhibition, in recently acquired works by Anthony Hernandez, Sanya Kantarovsky, Robert Pruitt, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. All of these artists have creatively engaged with their daily worlds, inviting others to partake in the beauty, dignity, and reality of the everyday.
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The thirteenth installment of the ICA鈥檚 annual collection exhibition presents major works that showcase artists鈥� engagement and entanglement with the everyday. Interest in common materials and quotidian subjects has been a defining theme of artistic practice in the 20th century, inspiring Cubist collage, found sculpture, and the widespread embrace of photography. By observing and being in the world, artists elevate and make significant ordinary textures and experiences.
Rooms dedicated to materials and process celebrate artists鈥� capacity to elicit the wondrous from the mundane. Works from Tara Donovan鈥檚 tape installation Nebulous to Dami谩n Ortega鈥檚 explosion of a 35mm camera to Nari Ward鈥檚 wrapped and adorned shopping cart Savior highlight the transformative use of common and found materials. Others incorporate everyday actions such as knotting, wrapping, or tying into their artistic practice, as in Lynda Benglis鈥檚 knot sculpture Sierra and Sheila Hicks鈥檚 stacked bundles of thread in Banisteriopsis II. Finally, portraiture鈥攁 noted strength in the ICA鈥檚 collection鈥攆orms a third means of exploring the everyday within the exhibition, in recently acquired works by Anthony Hernandez, Sanya Kantarovsky, Robert Pruitt, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. All of these artists have creatively engaged with their daily worlds, inviting others to partake in the beauty, dignity, and reality of the everyday.
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