- Marble statue of a youthful Hercules
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City
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Museum Rules, 2018
Backpack, black and white gelatin silver prints
28" x 21" each
When museum goers wander through exhibition spaces holding their backpacks, they are often asked to keep them in front of their bodies to prevent damage to artworks. Hamaguchi turns this rule into an opportunity for art making by converting a small ordinary backpack purchased at a shop on New York’s Canal Street into a pinhole camera loaded with an 8 x 10 film sheet. As instructed by the museum guards she strolls the museum with the camera in front of her, ready to take a photograph. While looking at one of the exhibited objects, she removes the cover of the pinhole and exposes the film. Each exposure takes around 5 min, the film capturing the duration of her reading the description.
- A viewer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City
- The backpack pinhole camera
- SAPPHO at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City
- Marble statue of Tyche-Fortuna
- restored with the portrait head of a woman
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City
- Marble statue of a lion
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City
- The Angel of Death
- and the Sculpture from the Milmore Memorial
- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City