OBS-ART-180
Ann Hamilton — We Will Sing
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Boundary as Field
OBS-ART-180
Structural Atmospheres
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-180
Origin:
UK
Era:
1990s-present
Themes / Lineage:
contemporary installation, material relation, atmosphere
Field Notes:
Surface is pulled into relation. Volume is defined without enclosure. Boundaries remain legible while space stays open.
Quiet Modernism appears here as limits treated as continuous conditions.

Boundary as Field

Ann Hamilton — We Will Sing

The boundary extends across the surface.

It does not close.

Limit becomes condition.

What doesn’t close?
A boundary appears, but it never encloses. It extends across the surface without resolving into edge. What continues is limit held as condition rather than border.

A boundary appears, but it never encloses.

It extends across the surface without resolving into edge.

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What continues is limit held as condition rather than border.

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We Will Sing by Ann Hamilton at Salts Mill for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture © David Lindsay

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Artist Overview

Ann Hamilton
sensation as spatial field

In Dialogue

Fred Sandback
line as spatial structure
Lygia Clark
Structure as organism
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