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I’ve found inspiration in Lynda Benglis’ work, as she explores themes of pollution and lack of containment through her forms and material choices.
Benglis describes her work in her recent book published by Phaidon, “was interesting to me that these were toxic chemicals, because I was calling attention to the material itself. I was also interested in how common they were. These rubbers and latexes can be found in everything from the pillows we sleep on to the inner tubes of bicycle tyres. You always need the organic with the chemical; they remain constantly in motion. Things like that interested me – the fact that we were making all these things that are both natural and unnatural in order to function, in order to explore, in order for the world to work. I was interested in how to take these everyday materials and transform them into something else. And there was something political in this. I wanted it to draw attention to these realities.”
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The dangerous chemicals that could have killed Lynda Benglis
The sculptor Lynda Benglis started water-skiing aged 13; in our new book, she recalls skimming over the local rivers and lakes of southern Louisiana. “They were polluted with oil slicks,” she says. Both those landscapes and that pollution remained with … Continue reading