Article: Helen Mirra; Galerie nordenhake.

In her installation Quarry (all works 2007), Helen Mirra uses her laconic touch to map a phenomenal expedition across time. Her means are modest: Handsome chunks of breccia, amphibolite, and serpentine rocks, collected above the Arctic Circle, nest on the artist's own folded clothing. Dotting the gallery floor, like a sparse archipelago, the stones--mottled with living moss and lichens--seemed like an extemporized display of some naturalist's homemade collection. Regarding past work such as the floor sculpture Sky-Wreck, 2001, critics have mentioned that Mirra owes a debt to Minimalism; perhaps, but this installation, with its air of inscrutability, is nowhere near as ...

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