Hammer Projects: Tita Cicognani

Wed Sep 28 2022 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

Hammer Museum | Los Angeles

Hammer Museum
Publisher/HostHammer Museum
Hammer Projects: Tita Cicognani Make reservations to use the hot tub in this installation by Los Angeles-based artist Tita Cicognani.
About this Event

Each reservation includes up to four guests. Free admission.

*See reservations details below.

The functioning hot tub at the center of Los Angeles–based artist Tita Cicognani’s (b. 1993, New York City) installation offers an environment of potential physical contact and intimacy in an institutional context typically designed to promote sterility and cleanliness. Customized as part of a larger installation that includes video, sound, and other media works, Cicognani’s hot tub is a device through which museum visitors might temporarily reconcile their relationship to germs and the perilousness of the body. The environment most readily resembles an alien love hotel, decomposing traditional markers of love and romance in order to further underscore their foreignness and unfamiliarity in an art museum. Cicognani’s installation is populated by digital avatars that displace the body of the artist and further aid in the uncanny misrecognition of one’s self as a stable and resolute entity. The presentation at the Hammer marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in an institution.


Hammer Projects: Tita Cicognani is organized by Aram Moshayedi, Robert Soros Senior Curator, with Nicholas Barlow, curatorial assistant.


*Reservation details

Reservations are required. Reservations are for 45-minute time slots. If you are more than 15 minutes late, your reservation will be forfeited.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Please bring appropriate swimwear and a dry change of clothes. Nudity is not permitted.

The exhibition is a public installation. Photography by the public of the exhibition and participants may occur.

NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY

Hot tub capacity is 4 persons at a time. Elderly persons, pregnant persons, infants, and those with health conditions requiring medical care should consult with a physician before entering the hot tub.

Hot water immersion while under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, drugs or medicines may lead to serious consequences and is not recommended. Long exposure may result in nausea, dizziness, or fainting. Persons having currently active diarrhea or who have had active diarrhea within the previous 14 days are not allowed to enter the hot tub.

IF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY, PLEASE CONTACT 911.


Event Venue

Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

Tickets

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