GRIMM is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Lucy Skaer's Hare (2022) by the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, London (UK).
Throughout her practice, Lucy Skaer interprets imagery and objects found within diverse contexts and histories, before transforming or disrupting their material and metaphorical origins. Blurring the line between abstract and representational, formal and functional, her sculptures mesh together different visual vocabularies in order to evade easy identification, so as to reveal the multiple potentials of each object or image. Skaer's Hares, adapted from copper ingots to which ears and eyes are added, laboriously transforming something materially minimal or cold into something lively, animated and animal. Derived from Skaer’s interest in the illustrations from the Livre de Chasse, a Mediaeval hunting manual written between 1387-1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, the Hares appear as frozen moments within a hunt, a balance of the force of desire, the blankness of raw material and the possibility of empathy.
Exhibition history:
Day Division, GRIMM, London (UK), 14 September - 29 October, 2022
