grace, 10 years since
Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Brooklyn, 2011
This was the fourth (4th) venue for grace, exhibited here on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, prior to traveling to Miami a month later.
grace, was originally conceived as a formal work of light (a tower of light) meant to interact with another light work (green fluorescent light) by Dan Flavin permanently installed in the Hudson River Museum’s main skylight. As a result of the attacks by the extremist al-Qaeda militants on September 11, 2001, grace became a memorial to everyone who lost their lives that day: civilians, emergency personnel, un-documented workers and the 19 militants themselves - all victims of failed global policies and aggressions. At its base of the work the paper wreath contains all the names and could be taken away by visitors one-by-one.
At this venue the installation included many PICTURED FACTS - statements and data about the impact that 9/11 had globally in the decade following 2001. The PICTURED FACTS are words and numbers on white boards were framed in black frames and hung around the tower of light in order to contrast the loss of life on September 11, 2001 and the ten years that followed.
photographs © angelo antonio costa – 2011