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Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy Prolong a Monumental Welcome to Vacationers Transiting Via O’Hare — Colossal
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All photos © Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy, courtesy of CDA and DCASE, shared with permission
Vacationers at O’Hare Airport’s Multi-Modal Facility in Chicago—an expansive parking construction that connects the entire airport’s floor transportation—at the moment are handled to a large-scale, collaborative art work by Hank Willis Thomas (beforehand) and Coby Kennedy as they transfer via a lofty atrium. Rising from the partitions of an escalator corridor and measuring roughly 27 and 31 toes lengthy, monumental arms lengthen throughout the house as if nearly to clasp arms. Titled “REACH,” the piece takes cues from its website in a busy transportation hub, reframing a transitory house right into a reminder of togetherness and connectivity.
“‘REACH’ is a connection level and large-scale gesture that conjures up us to return collectively,” says Thomas, whose sculptures have typically integrated arms and arms in symbolic positons akin to embraces, the Black Energy fist, or hands-up defensive indicators that evoke historic occasions and activism. The work is the latest of O’Hare’s main public artwork installations, which amongst many others consists of “Palimpsest,” Nick Cave’s multi-story beaded tapestry put in in 2019 in one other a part of the identical constructing.
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