Julia Scher Great Hands for a Lifetime, 2020
Pink fiber glass, modeled on a folded-over rubber glove, Great Hands for a Lifetime is part of Julia Scher’s "Security by Julia" series of artworks produced during and against the Covid 19 pandemic. This series also includes, for example, a “Security by Julia” hand sanitizer dispenser.
Departing from the idea of the state as potential aggressor, or a body against which one must protect oneself, here the threat is viral. Treated such that it appears marble-like, the glove is both a sort of monument to humanity’s struggle under the pandemic, and somehow deflated and nonfunctional.
The work can be presented on a plinth, a shelf, or any flat surface.