Janine Antoni
Grope, 1990
84 pockets from work pants hand sewn together
Dimensions variable (small version)
Photographed by Ron Forth
Grope investigates the pocket – a space we touch everyday but rarely see. Eighty-four pockets from worn men’s work pants are cut out and hand sewn together. The labor connects the hands of the artist to the men by exposing the place where many hands have touched.