Cornelia ParkerIts not until you read the title of these works that the subtle humour becomes apparent. Perhaps a little cerebral, but I definitely enjoy it. Particularly what she is saying about our value systems, after all, art and the quotidian has a lot to do with redefining the meaning/purpose/status of an otherwise ordinary or insignificant object. There is a history of irony in this form of art (of course alluding to Duchamp) and Parker definitely adopts this.
Right: Marks Made by Freud, Subconsciously, 2000, Macrophotograph of the seat of Freud's chair, 63 by 63 cm.
Below: Brontean Absract (Anne Bronte's stained handkerchief), 2006, C-type colour print of scan, 38.1 by 27.9 cm, framed
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