Gallery of Art | University of Northern Iowa

A female figure with long dark hair and in wash of blue light, lies curled up on a bed of large-crystal rock salt

The UNI Friends of the Permanent Art Collection & Gallery (PAC&G) have begun a project to photograph all the objects in the Collection. If you would like to help us sponsor this project please Support the Art Gallery.

"Preserve: Stay" from the Divining Series

Artist Margarett, Caitlin Mary
Artist Notes

A description of the performance, "The artist lays on a bed of rock salt in an installation that is only accessible to the audience by Instagram livestream. During the performance, a recording of hymns sung in a cathedral plays on loop."
Date 2017
Medium chromogrenic print
Dimensions 16" H 22.75" W
Credit Line Department of Art Purchase, Charles and Florence Herman Photography Fund
Accession number 2018.050
Provenance Cedar Falls, IA