Birds of a Feather (Purple)

Elia Alba

born 1962

Birds of a Feather (Purple), 2022 - 2022

Material/technique: fabric; glitter; acrylic; wire; polyester; zipper

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 20.32 x 27.94 x 20.32 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): acrylic box or vitrine(?) 65.53 x 25.4 x 20.32 cm

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist

Accession number: EL2025.009.a,b

On display: Perkins Central Court

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Bold Women

Artist Elia Alba describes her Hands series: “Utilizing the personal narratives the sitter has shared with me, along with historical and folkloric narratives I ascribed to them, I create a portrait of them through their hands. Their gestures… are tied to our thoughts. It’s a bodily action that represents information and thus has an indirect effect on the world. The hands are created through a photo-transfer process on fabric of photographs I have taken of a person’s hands.”