Medusa Chimes
2018
Art Basel Miami
Miami Beach, Florida
Installed within Alice Könitz’s Los Angeles Museum Of Art
(LAMOA) Display System #7, Medusa Chimes celebrates
female rage. This black and pink sculpture is made of
bituminous coal and Himalayan salt crystals, all raw,
mined from the earth and hung with brass chandelier
chain to recalibrate Medusa’s story. They are her stone
eyes themselves. Their very raw and pure materiality
harken to her strength, bodily necessity and depth of
character embedded within female honesty and
intolerance of abuse. Women speaking truth to power and
standing up to male domination are embraced by these
eyes. Dialoguing with protection amulets in Greek folk
culture—Mati and the idea of a Filakto—these chimes are
hung and dialed into Medusa’s earthbound strength. She
brings all infractors down to our shared earth. LAMOA is an ongoing collaborative project initiated by Alice Konitz.