DAY/NIGHT is a site-specific sculpture by Yael Kanarek that was commissioned for the new US embassy in Harare. The sculpture is suspended from the ceiling to form a cluster of 76 units for the words Day/Night in the 19 languages spoken in Zimbabwe. This universal theme is expressed as a sound cloud of languages and a vibrant palette of warm and cold colors. Various parts of the sculpture highlight throughout the day by the changing sunlight in the gallery hall. Sudden air flow causes words to swivel. The sculpture embodies the dynamism and transaction inherent in languages.
Research for this sculpture was made possible by the Arts in Embassies Cultural Exchange program, ensuing conversation with linguists and ethnographers from three universities in Zimbabwe to inform the design process.
Rock climbing ropes, wool and acrylic yarns, carabiners, coeur anchors, barbie weights
Dimensions variable
Adapted from Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings for a perpetual motion machine (Forster Codex, Volume II, Verso 91)
Rock climbing ropes, wool and acrylic yarns, carabiners, coeur anchors, barbie weights
Dimensions variable
Adapted from Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings for a perpetual motion machine (Forster Codex, Volume II, Verso 91).
Sheer organza ribbon, two metal meathooks, aircraft cable
Dimensions variable
Collection of EMST Museum, Athens, Greece
Text: love letters from World of Awe, Chapters One and Two; Linux Kernel source code
Sheer organza ribbon, metal hook, aircraft cable, pulley
Dimensions variable
Text: Linux Kernel files
Steel, candle, pearl, hand drawn ink and pencil on parchment
20 x 15 x 27 in / 50.8 x 38 x 68.6 cm
Edition of 3
Text: The Love Letter: 69.325 from World of Awe, Chapter 2, Destruction & Mending (front); Linux Kernel file source code defining schedule task (back)
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, 14k gold and silver chains
Various dimensions
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, 14k gold and silver chains
Various dimensions
The clay sculptures draw upon vocabularies of jewelry and gaming–the clay is sliced, rolled and pressed with gold and silver chains, or bear the marks of fingers inserted to render cubes into dice.
This series of sculptures evaluates and connects differing value systems — jewelry, gaming and the body. To record a raw and visceral interaction with the material, the making process was conditioned by a rapid action: Pound, press, role, slice, finger and skew. No reevaluation.
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, silver chains
24 x 6 x 5.75 in / 61 x 15.2 x 14.6 cm
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, 14k gold chain, lettering
15.75 x 6 x 6 in / 40 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm
Text in 14k gold letters: I found the key to extreme beauty.
Self-hardening clay, silver chain
5 x 9 x 9 in / 12.7 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, 14k gold chain and lettering
12.25 x 6 x 5.75 in / 31.1 x 15.2 x 14.6 cm
Text: I found the key to extreme beauty.
Self-hardening clay, silver chain
Self-hardening clay, wood, silver chains
5" x 23" x 21" / 12.7 x 58.4 x 53.3 cm
Self-hardening clay, steel, wood, 14k gold chain, lettering
12 x 6 x 4" / 30.5 x 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Private collection
Text: "I Found the Key to Extreme Beauty."
The work incorporates three components: a sculpture, necklace and title. Once the sculpture and necklace were purchased, the name of the woman, Pecki, was introduced into the title.
sand, rubber, glue, print on polyester
installation dimensions variable
print: 126" x 118" / 320 x 300 cm
Text: (from Object of Desire)
Love letter 2687/654: Find
Sunset/Sunrise
Precious,
A drop of water in one hand . . . an ocean in the other.
A drop of water is one and an ocean is one.
Many ones within the one. Obvious.
An ocean is a world. A drop of water is a world.
A drop of ocean; such are my treasure crumbs.
There are 250,368,000,000,000,000,000,000 teaspoons of water on planet Earth.
None in Sunset/Sunrise.
Quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
How many cups of tea?
I missed you while near you. I miss you now more.
Your hand in mine.
In the back of my mind harbors the thought:
I don’t know the way back home.
Yours forever
Yours sunset/sunrise forever yours
Yours forever yours
Speakers, computer, cables, wires, soundtrack
Dimensions variable
Audio from Hello, 2002
Installation from the World of Awe solo exhibition at The Moving Image Gallery, New York, directed by curator Michele Thursz, June 7 - June 30, 2001
Computer, speakers, custom self-generating landscape software, soundtrack
Dimensions variable
Installation from the World of Awe solo exhibition at The Moving Image Gallery, New York, directed by curator Michele Thursz, June 7 - June 30, 2001
Computers, keyboards, plastic, stick, nails, soundtrack
Audio derived from World of Awe: A Traveler's Journal [section, date]
The installation took place at Moving Image Gallery, NYC from June 7 - June 30, 2001.
Gelatin capsule, candy sprinkles, acrylic box
1" x 1" x 1" / 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Unlimited edition
Based on "treasure crumbs" from World of Awe: A Traveler's Journal