Nnenna Okore
When all is said and done, 2016
Burlap, dye, wire, and yarn
120 x 300 x 36 in.
304.8 x 762.0 x 91.44 cm
304.8 x 762.0 x 91.44 cm
Referencing delicately interwoven forms, artist Nnenna Okore's large-scale installations seek to reveal the marveling entanglement and twistedness of skeletal lattices found within nature.
Through her use of recycled materials, the artist references the social, historical and environmental interconnectedness of our collective experiences as humans. Okore employs reductive and deconstructive processes to expose elements of decomposition that are elevated by age, death and decay - transient experiences that befall anything that is living. She is keenly sensitive to the rhythms and contours of everyday life, as they signal both the transience of human labor and its inevitable mark on the material world.
