Camille Iemmolo’s installation piece, Band-Aid House At Play, at Art Miami/Context 2012 uses over 21,000 band aids. Shown by Packer Schopf Gallery out of Chicago, is both a tribute to her brother and a relentlessly positive view of the role of suffering in human existence. Tribute may not be the correct word because there is something much more psychically interactive going on in the piece.
“On a global level it is about human suffering and how we endure.” says Iemmolo. “We are handed suffering for a reason.”
A year and a half ago the artist broke 13 bones on Friday the 13th and almost died. Her brother has life-long medical issues. We all need Band-Aids now and again but how we look at these injuries, large and small is what, at least partially, defines us.
The photos below, on the outside of the house are of the Society of Bankers and the Society of Rushers (I am unsure why I capitalized these but it just seems right). What these represent in our society, perhaps, need little definition.
Iemmolo gives a tour of the house in the video below. Find out more about her and her work HERE.
“On a global level it is about human suffering and how we endure.” says Iemmolo. “We are handed suffering for a reason.”
A year and a half ago the artist broke 13 bones on Friday the 13th and almost died. Her brother has life-long medical issues. We all need Band-Aids now and again but how we look at these injuries, large and small is what, at least partially, defines us.
The photos below, on the outside of the house are of the Society of Bankers and the Society of Rushers (I am unsure why I capitalized these but it just seems right). What these represent in our society, perhaps, need little definition.
Iemmolo gives a tour of the house in the video below. Find out more about her and her work HERE.
Above, on the right, the artist shows the "black heart" inside the Society of Rushers.
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