Work from the Collection

Untitled

Artist: Angharad Williams
Date of creation: 2024
Domain: Sculpture
Materials: Craft, Plastic tube, Padding wadding , Cotton thread, Elastic, Sequin strip, Ribbon, Rhinestones, Tulle fabric
Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition: 2025
Angharad Williams, Untitled, Sculpture, 2024, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR
Untitled is a three-metre-high sculpture that reproduces, on a monumental scale, a generic, mass-produced children’s magic wand. First presented in the Berlin Straße exhibition in 2024, the work forms part of the artist’s exploration of Berlin’s urban and social fabric. Similar wands are notably used in Berlin’s rave culture, which has become emblematic of the city. Abandoned on the pavements after the party, they take on a more bitter significance by evoking the contrasts between ecstasy and depression that permeate the scene. The enlargement of everyday objects, a recurring theme in Williams’s work, here explores the relationship between the body and its environment. The baton, which can only be lifted collectively, thus becomes a metaphor for the potential for social transformation driven by collective strength.

Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.

Exhibition

Berlin Straße
Galerie Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 26 Apr 2024 to 22 Jun 2025

À propos de l'artiste

Angharad Williams

Born in 1986 in Ynys Môn, Pays de Galle

Angharad Williams développe une pratique multiforme embrassant la peinture, la sculpture, l’installation, la performance et la photographie. Souvent empreintes d’ambiguïté, ses œuvres prennent racine dans l’écriture pour inviter à une réflexion critique sur les dynamiques qui régissent nos modes de vie. L’artiste interroge les politiques de représentation ainsi que les mécanismes de pouvoir – tels que l’autorité, la sécurité et le design – qui interviennent dans les processus de construction de l’identité, à l’échelle individuelle comme collective.

Née en 1986 à Ynys Môn (Royaume-Uni), Angharad Williams vit et travaille à Berlin (Allemagne).
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