Art Basel Unlimited

As part of the fair’s Unlimited sector, Lehmann Maupin will present Liza Lou’s landmark installation work Security Fence (2005). Crafted entirely from glass beads on steel and razor wire, Lou’s to-scale installation reconstructs exterior prison security measures—a chain link fence with barbed wire on top. Calling notions of security and fragility into question, Lou’s elaborate handmade work introduces touch and contact into a space of isolation, lending care and dignity to an otherwise dehumanizing and industrial structure.

Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou makes sculpture, paintings, drawings and room-size environments that reflect upon issues of women’s labor and connotations of the sublime. While decoration plays an important part in her practice, Lou creates painstaking work that requires countless hours of artisanal-like expertise. Security Fence (2005), signals a point of connection between glamour and socio-political and cultural inequalities.

麗莎·露（1969年生於美國紐約；目前於洛杉磯工作及生活）1996年在紐約新當代藝術博物館展出了一比一大小的廚房雕塑作品，引起關注。她開創先河，利用玻璃小彩珠作為雕塑的原材料。通過其緩慢的手工制作過程，廚房成為女性的紀念碑，代表著女性勞工在歷史上一直被忽視。該項目確立了她對物質、社會實踐和監禁的探索。

2005年，露移居至南非的誇祖魯．納塔爾省，她在省內聘請一群精通珠飾傳統工藝的祖魯族女性，共同協作「Security Fence」（2005）的大型雕塑。藝術家與祖魯族女匠一同工作，重新思考在非西方的歷史和社會學框架中實踐藝術，並強調以材料和勞動為主要題材。在過去的十年中，露專註於極簡主義的調色，利用由手汗、油和瑕疵引起的顏色的自然變化作為色調標記制作方式。在她的單色、像素化、編織的「繪畫」中，有玻璃珠微妙的變化和條紋，在作品創作的重覆和無形過程之下，展現人性和美感。