- Artist/Maker:
- Brigitte NaHoN
- Bio:
- American and Israeli, b. France, 1960
- Title:
- TIME ZERO
- Date:
- 2006
- Medium:
- Baccarat crystal, steel, galvanized steel aircraft cables, wood, and stainless steel mirror
- Dimensions:
- Installed: 113 3/4 × 49 1/4 × 96 in. (288.9 × 125.1 × 243.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Kristie Jayne and Milton and Miriam Handler Funds
- Accession Number:
- 2006-57a-c
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Brigitte NaHoN employs a combination of fragile and strong materials that often seem to float in space. Her ethereal work addresses such opposites as balance and imbalance, solidity and fragility, heaviness and lightness, the temporary and the eternal. Reflecting her connection to her Jewish identity, TIME ZERO was the first work made after NaHoN's recovery from cancer. In the piece, life metaphorically hangs in the balance as wood spokes and crystals cascade toward two reflective stainless steel panels on the floor. Like mirrors, these panels expand the piece almost infinitely while, at the same time, incorporating the viewer's reflection in the work. In TIME ZERO, light and shadow are the artist's metaphors for spirituality and rebirth.
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