Helen Escobedo

Summer Fields, 2008

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Helen Escobedo's career spanned more than fifty years. An early exponent of installation art, she brought the culture of Mexico and Western Europe together through sculpture that intervened in everyday life.

Themes prevalent in her work include waste and the environment, women's role in society, death, memory and the transformative action of light.

 

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Escobedo's interest in the cylindrical form of baled hay, its monolithic presence in fields across Europe and traditional pastoral connections within British landscape art, led to the development of a work made for YSP. Escobedo placed twenty cylindrical sculptures in a square acre of land in the Country Park. Comprising an inner and outer mesh, the structures are painted in such a way that they appear to float in the landscape and disappear into it, depending on the weather conditions and quality of light, creating a defined but indeterminable space. 

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