Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image
Barbara Tannenbaum
A visual essay by Ann Hamilton connects related compositions in a format recalling a filmstrip that hints at, but never supplies, a narrative. The images, scans of small figurative sculptures in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, are interspersed with fragments of found text and scans of fabric that recall curtains drawn between acts and recall the prevalence of drapery in depictions of the human figure. The visual essay is followed by a scholarly essay by Barbara Tannenbaum that sets Hamilton’s new work in the context of the artist’s career-long practice of photography. It discusses the ways that, for Hamilton, the processes used and the experience of making an artwork are essential components of its meaning.
Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art by Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Publication Date: December 14, 2025
