Cornelia Parker: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
“We all go a little mad…sometimes,” Norman Bates observed in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho (1960). It was an eerily calm, self-aware moment from a man who staged life. Once the façade had fallen, there was nothing left. It was all a shell game, nothing more, nothing less—as madness proves, more often than not, unsustainable.
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But there was a time before things fell apart, and a place where it all began. Turner Prize-nominated British artist Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) explores this space in an incredible site-specific work commissioned for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Fashioned in the form of the Bates family home crossed with the classic red barn of American architecture, with a tip of the cap to the great painter Edward Hopper, Parker presents The Roof Garden Commission: Cornelia Parker, Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
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