Scrap tyres into art: Chakaia Booker

Washington DC - A new exhibition of sculpture has opened in National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Artist Chakaia Booker has created a series of pieces, most of them using scrap rubber tyres in their construction.

In the introduction to the exhibition, the Museum says, "In her work, 'post-industrial' objects are made from automobile tires, Booker develops her own version of environmental consciousness and rehabilitation."

The Museum continues, "At the same time, her works comment upon the industrial machine and what it makes of men and women and their relationships- the ensuing conditions of unmet needs and desires,” as she calls it. Ultimately, her sculptures are barb-tongued images in which formal innovations dovetail with force exercised and force absorbed."

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