Appliances

The room is filled with contraptions made from wires, parachutes and other found objects. In her videos the artist animates these objects and shows her concern with "devices we employ to gain control over nature."

• 1992

• Smedley, Melissa (American installation artist, born 1961)

• InSITE92

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 356)

wire; cloth; found objects

• InSITE92

• Mexican-American border region

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

• Machinery
• Nature
• Parachutes

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715637

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

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

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2020-10-27