Cornelia Parker's "Feather from Freud's Pillow" is a beautiful image in itself and points to wider concepts of time and place. It was taken from the psychoanalyst's famous couch at his London home. The feather is almost a relic, providing us with an entry point not only into the life of Freud, but also into the lives of his patients; if a feather could talk… Cornelia Parker is interested in the symbolic associations carried by objects. "Sometimes I find the tiniest bit of information the most evocative," she commented in an interview for her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in 1998.

Places

England, London

Subjects

conceptual art, psychoanalysis

Materials & Techniques

photogram, photograph (as object name)

Artist

Cornelia Parker (1956 - )

Title

Feather from Freud’s Pillow

Date

1998

Medium

photogram

Acquisition

Purchased from Frith Street Gallery, June 1998

GAC number

17329/4