Double Elegy

Double Elegy is one of Harmony Hammond' self-described ‘nearmonochrome paintings’. Two dense fields of paint are horizontally divided. The work shows how the manipulation, presentation and materiality of paint function as carriers of meaning, as much as any imagery.

She brings socio-political content into the world of abstraction, for instance queer and feminist concerns around the body. She says, “The body is always near. Monochrome refuses disembodiment…All painting is about the skin of paint. The skin of paint calls up the body, and therefore the painting body.”