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The Artist Project: Ann Hamilton

Sep 16, 2015 3 MINUTES

"For me the act of making is also an act of finding something."

Ann Hamilton reflects on a Bamana marionette in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Ann Hamilton, born in 1956, is an American multimedia installation artist who also works in video, sculpture, photography, textile art, and printmaking.

Video still of a close-up of a finger with black ink on it and a backwards letter

Ann Hamilton (American, born 1956)

abc, 1994/1999

Video. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2001 (2001.270) © 1999 Ann Hamilton

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