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Jimmie Durham

A Stone Asleep in Bed at Home
2000

Installation, 200 x 155 x 101 cm.

Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna

Collection: Collection of MAC - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille (Inv. no. C.05.03).

For Durham, boulders are the ultimate sculptural form, because each boulder is in itself a changing sculpture that is shaped by the elements in the course of time. He is fascinated by the personality of boulders, the ways in which a static object can become active, like a character in a story.