Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist whose work is centered in the metaphorical structures and material processes of textiles, and takes form as large-scale site-responsive installations, performance collaborations, print media, and public projects. Inspired by histories and geographies of place, the work’s multiple forms often juxtapose expressions of language and tactile materiality to explore relationships between the individual and the collective, the animate and the inanimate, the human and the non-human animal, the silent and the spoken.

Hamilton’s medallion takes the form of a concordance: a weaving, structuring a text around a keyword. It is also an agreement, a harmony. The phrases she highlights—including “WE hear evidence,” “WE affirm opportunity,” and “WE work for justice”—are parsed from foundational documents central to our justice system. These intersections and crossings stitch a chorus of affirmations, a warp and weft forming the fabric of our nation, and underscore the addition: “WE the other people.”