Art Funded
The Hour of Prayer
© Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959)
National Museum Cardiff
2005
The Hour of Prayer is a short tale about attachment and death shown in four simultaneous projections. It is based on the artist's own life and tells the story of death entering a house and of the process of dealing with grief. These events begin in New York during a winter storm in January and end in Benin, West Africa, eleven months later. Ahtila is a visual artist and film maker who describes her films as 'human dramas', and combines the objectivity of a documentary maker with the imaginary visualisations of a psychologist.
- Medium: DVD installation for four projections
- Dimensions: variable
- Art Fund Grant: £60000 ( Total: £94,448)
- ArtFunded in: 2008
- Vendor: Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Provenance
The artist.
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