Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton
The Maybe, 1995
Perspex box containing embroidery and circuit board with labels
Hand signed and numbered by both artists
Edition of 50
£2,500 (incl. VAT)
In 1995 for seven days, eight hours a day, Tilda Swinton performed The Maybe – an enigmatic and evocative work exploring a series of unanswerable questions from within the confines of a glass case.
Glass display cases around the gallery contained objects relating to the passing of time – relics of famous fascination, traces of lives lived, objects of historical resonance and of prurient curiosity. Swinton, enclosed in her own glass cabinet – a living, breathing, silent being – invited questions of mortality and of time. Conceived and performed by Swinton and first performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London in an installation created with Cornelia Parker in September 1995 the artists also created a series of limited editions made up of their own possessions.
For the first time since their initial release we are offering four of these unique objects.
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