Wholesale Cornelia Parker

Edited by Andrea Schlieker, director of exhibitions and displays at Tate Britain, Cornelia Parker is a fascinating exploration of the work of one of Britain's most important and most celebrated sculptors. Cornelia Parker's art is about destruction, resurrection, and reconfiguration. Demonstrating the importance of process, she frequently transforms objects by using seemingly violent techniques such as shooting, exploding, squashing, cutting, dropping, and burning. Through these actions, she both physically alters the object and becomes an active participant in the development of its story. Parker is best known for her large-scale installations, such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) for which she had a garden shed blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if freezing the explosion process in time. Perpetual Canon (2004) is made up of brass band instruments, steamrollered flat.