Known for transforming common nylon climbing rope into elaborate monumental sculptures, New York-based artist Orly Genger has created 'Whole', a unique site-specific installation, in response to the IMA’s Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion. Genger’s project for the IMA is her largest and most ambitious to date, incorporating thousands of feet of rope, which she hand-knots, paints and stacks, creating immense sculptures that confront the viewer. Looped and knotted by hand, Whole evokes the normally intimate processes of knitting and crocheting, yet expands them to a newly epic scale. Genger’s work challenges typical associations with craft and textile through its intensely physical creation process, in which the artist wrestles rope into knots and amasses it into powerful sculptural objects. Orly Genger Until 14 June IMA Indianapolis
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