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100 Language Gloves (detail)

By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/hennyburnett" title="Henny Burnett" class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50"> Henny Burnett </a> 1997

Martin Urmson

"100 Language gloves" is an installation piece made up of a hundred individually cast gloves. Each glove is a relief cast in plaster and muslin. Onto the muslin is printed fragments of manuscripts, a personal reference to the artist's father and his life long study of manuscripts at The British Library. The gloves resemble archaeological fragments that have a history of their own.

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