Jimmie Durham

©Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna
A Stone Asleep in Bed at Home, 2000
Installation , 200 x 155 x 101 cm
grey granite, cotton, chestnut wood, pinewood

For Durham, boulders are the ultimate sculptural form, because each boulder is in itself a changing sculpture that is shaped by the elements in the course of time. He is fascinated by the personality of boulders, the ways in which a static object can become active, like a character in a story.