inside darkness | there are no lines, 2018, installation views, Times Square Space, New York Photo: Steve Benisty Courtesy: Times Square Space
Portrait: Hayden Dunham
- PUBLICATION CURA.
- DATE Spring 2019
- URL curamagazine.com
- PDF cecimoss.com
Excerpt /
“How do the byproducts of industrialization become embodied? What kind of models, in terms of presence and circulation, do these materials propose? Artist Hayden Dunham investigates these questions in her shape-shifting practice, which takes the form of sculpture, installation, performance, video, sound, and text. In our conversation, Dunham discussed the carcinogenic chemical C8, which was developed by 3M in the 1940s and later used in Teflon and other applications by DuPont. Not only is C8 found widely in the water supply, studies by the National Institutes of Health estimate that it is present in the bloodstream of 99% of the American population. Dunham is interested in how we co-exist and co-evolve with entities such as C8, while simultaneously considering how an art object can mimic such a substance’s form and movement.”