Untitled (Armadillo), 1991
Sculpture, 125 x 60 x 23 cm.
© image: Maria Thereza Alves
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK006913-001).
The head of a reptile-like mouse is attached with yellow tape to a construction. This small head, painted in bright red and with one Plexiglas ear, is an armadillo' - an endangered animal with an armor consisting of strong bony plates, covered by horny skin. The animal is found in South and Central America and in the south-central states of the United States. Amongst other things, he eats animal remains and some believe that it searches for human remains on cemeteries. A black and white photograph is attached to the sculpture, at breast height. The picture seems to 'speak the language' of a B-movie. There are two figures: a dominant man in a black suit keeps another one imprisoned: a man with naked torso, tied to a chair with ropes. Durham purposely makes a 'speech error': the dominant man does not threaten the other with a pistol, but with the small head of an armadillo.
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Artist
> Jimmie Durham.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. M HKA, Antwerpen, 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Exhibition: ENCLOSED. Teseum, Tongeren, 21 May 2021 - 03 October 2021.
> Exhibition: Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject. Secession, Vienna, 11 May 2013 - 16 July 2013.
> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Against Belief, Against Architecture.
> Ensemble: JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Jimmie Durham.
> Ensemble: Animal Skulls and Other Figures.
> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham @M HKA.