sculpture
Highlights
Rearview Walking Stick
The Rearview Walking Sticks combine tree branches and car mirrors to disrupt ordinary walking. Playful yet cumbersome, they make participants reflect on movement, memory, and perception, turning walking through the landscape into a participatory, performative artwork.
Please, walk on here (Kono-ue wo Aruite Kudasai)
In 1955, Shimamoto’s Please Walk on Here used stable and unstable boards to make participants physically experience risk and instability. Recreated for the 1993 Venice Biennale, it highlighted bodily engagement and precarious perception.
Mirror Labyrinth – NYC
Mirror Labyrinth – NYC is a freestanding mirrored installation with varying-height lamellae forming interconnected curves. Reflecting viewers, surroundings, and Manhattan’s skyline, it creates a disorienting, labyrinth-like experience linking Brooklyn Bridge Park to the cityscape.
Plaza Cisneros
Plaza Cisneros revitalized Medellín’s Guayaquil sector through urban renewal and heritage-sensitive design. Its Forest of Light and Shadow—300 light towers—transforms the square into a civic landmark, hosting daily life and major events like the 2018 Medellín Marathon.
100 Boots
Between 1971–1973, Eleanor Antin traveled across California and New York with 100 rubber boots, photographing and sending postcards of 51 staged actions to friends and institutions worldwide. 100 Boots questioned gallery limits and became a narrative journey ending at MoMA.
Tilted Arc
In 1981, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was installed in Federal Plaza, NYC, to engage pedestrians by disrupting the space. Opposed by workers who claimed it obstructed movement, the sculpture was removed in 1989. The controversy led to policy changes and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
Walking pieces
Seat Belt, Three Points
Seat Belt, Three Points invites viewers to strap into a seat belt attached to three stations, creating a physical interaction with the artwork. Baden’s works explored kinesthetic experiences and neuromuscular memory, altering perceptions of balance and sensory imprint.
Alien Staff
Alien Staff (1992–93) by Krzysztof Wodiczko is an electronic staff with a monitor, speaker, and display of personal documents, carried like a biblical shepherd’s staff or a 17th-century bourgeois walking stick. It allows immigrants to share their stories publicly, fostering dialogue, empathy, and challenging cultural prejudices.
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Articles elsewhere
‘Small Works, Wall Works’ at Trapezium Arts, Bradford, Yorkshire Sculptors Group Show 2026
The group show 'Small Works, Wall Works' was hosted at Trapezium Arts in Bradford, UK from 21 February to 14 March 2026 and featured work by members of the Yorkshire Sculptors Group.Trapezium is a contemporary arts and photography gallery on Kirkgate i...
Walk 120
Cerrillos to Canyon RoadArchitecture and art, piñon smoke and the quiet air, these are some of the things that make Santa Fe so special. Things I love about this town: the way adobe absorbs the sunlight; not a single straight road or wall; the patio and coffee at Garcia Street Books; mountains always in view; coyote fences; farolitos; history; that it's too cute but it works; art galleries all over the place; pedestrian- and dog-friendly; the farmer's market; the Indian [...]
Walk 102
Rough QuarterHard to find this coulee, unless you really know where you're going. It is almost silent here, and warm, and sculptural. It feels old.Location: not too far from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, AlbertaLength: 2 kmCompanions: TomDate: 26 March, 2022 [...]
