Selections from the MCA Collection
Images
Louise Bourgeois, The She-Fox, 1985. Black marble and steel; 56 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 30 1/4 in. (143.5 x 52 x 76.8 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Camille Oliver-Hoffmann, 2008.22
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
Fiona Tan, Correction, 2004. Color video installation; overall dimensions variable. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2004.26. © 2003 Fiona Tan
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Le Baiser/The Kiss, 1999. Color video installation; overall dimensions variable. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of the Sara Lee Corporation, 1999.56. © 1999 Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Photo © MCA Chicago
Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 2008. Wood and concrete; 85 5/8 x 95 1/4 x 40 in. (220 x 242 x 120 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Katharine S. Schamberg by exchange, 2008.20
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA ChicagoAbout
This group of four works from the MCA Collection, including large video installations by Fiona Tan and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and significant recent acquisitions of work by Doris Salcedo and Louise Bourgeois, share a sensibility of uncomfortable spaces. Ranging from architect Mies van der Rohe’s transparent Farnsworth House and American prisons to the psychological terrain of war-torn Colombia and the emotional violence of some maternal relationships, the figure, including that of the viewer, becomes subsumed by these charged spaces.