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May 1st

Sharon Hayes, 2012

GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin.

Sharon Hayes is an American artist who came to prominence in the early 1990s.

She works primarily in video, installation and performance to explore issues such as queer theory, sexual politics and activism.

May 1st comprises five letterpress prints which feature the text of a letter to an unnamed lover. The subject is the pleasure and despair of political desire.

This work, acquired alongside a film work called Fingernails on a blackboard: Bella, now joins the collection of GoMA, Glasgow’s main gallery of contemporary art.

More information

Title of artwork, date

May 1st, 2012

Date supported

2019

Medium and material

5 letter press prints

Dimensions

50.2 x 36.8

Grant

11234

Total cost

10532

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