Janine Antoni and the Blanket Mold

Bathtub, lard, soap. Eureka, 1993

Janine Antoni works within the perimeters between performance and sculpture, her work with molds relate to some of the work TurnHurst make, Antoni's piece Saddle is a blanket mold of her body from tanned cow hide. Much of her work is about process and the relationship between the object through making. She uses everyday functions to manipulate her sculptures and this usually ends up as a performance. The interaction between object, body and audience is apparent in the piece Eureka.

Janine Antoni, Saddle, 2000
TurnHurst are planning to create a blanket mold of their own bodies in plaster. Creating both an interior and exterior mold of their frames which will hopefully be exhibited in Kingston Project Space.

Antoni's work has been at the forefront of American Feminist art for the past decade, she if fearless in confronting themes of materiality, process, power, cultural processes of feminity and her art historical roots.