Emily Hesse
No Equivalent, 2018
Single channel video
5:44 minutes (looped)
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
Photography: John McKenzie
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Foundation
Further images
No Equivalent 2018 shows an unknown hand is pushing, dropping and letting go of unfired bricks from the second floor window of a terraced street house. Prior to the making...
No Equivalent 2018 shows an unknown hand is pushing, dropping and letting go of unfired bricks from the second floor window of a terraced street house. Prior to the making of this film, the bricks had been used in a former work by Hesse, which referenced and mocked Carl Andre’s, Equivalent VIII, 1966. Each brick falls as if a dead weight. The thudding sound as they hit the ground serves as a chilling reminder that historically, a woman’s voice has not had the strength to be heard as equal.
