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Editor: This is Marisa Merz's *Untitled (Living Sculpture)* from the Tate collection. It's undated, and the materials aren’t specified, but it looks like aluminum. It feels… both organic and industrial at the same time. What do you make of it? Curator: It's as if Merz caught a flurry of light, or maybe a metallic, otherworldly jellyfish, and suspended it mid-air. It has this delicate strength, a paradox she often explored. Do you see how the metal almost seems to breathe? Editor: I do now! So, is it really "living?" Curator: Perhaps it lives in the way it changes with the light, or how each viewer brings their own breath to it. It feels like a continuous becoming. Editor: I never thought about sculpture in that way before. Curator: Art’s invitation to breathe with it, no?
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Merz stapled strips of aluminium together to create this suspended sculpture, which originally hung in her home before being exhibited in a gallery. Like other artists of the Arte Povera group, Merz used inexpensive, ordinary materials to challenge the elite status of art. She is also concerned with domesticity and has used techniques with feminine associations, such as knitting. ‘There has never been any division between my life and my work,’ she has said. Gallery label, January 2016
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