Metamorphosis

San Diego-based artist Deborah Small's project for inSITE94, titled Metamorphosis/Metamorfosis, explored the life and original research of seventeenth-century entomologist Maria Sybylla Merian. The installation drew on Merian's observations as a naturalist and her prolific engraved records of flora and fauna in the Dutch colony of Surinam. Apart from the work performed by Merian, the interest for Small was in the intersection of colonizer and the colonized, created by Merian's presence as a white European woman in a society and social system reliant on patriarchy, both at home and in the colony. --inSITE94

• 1994

• Small, Deborah (American sculptor and installation artist, born 1948)

• InSITE94
• Timken Art Gallery (American repository, San Diego, contemporary)

• Fischer, Hal, 1950-

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 347)

Timken Museum of Art

mixed media

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717

• Artifacts
• Colonization
• Feminism
• Imperialism
• Natural history museums
• Patriarchy

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715628

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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2020-10-27