Hope
Hilton | Message
in a Bottle | small glass vials and pen on paper [2005-2007]
We
look everywhere for signs and instructions. Hope Hilton provides
both in small, stoppered glass bottles neatly arranged on a shelf,
handwritten paper messages within. Not unlike a weekly
horoscope, a Magic 8 Ball, or the pop songs that cross a desk over
the course of a day at work, these small, possibly random, notes
get us where we’re most vulnerable and in need—at the
base
level of hopeful suggestion. Hilton’s vials give twice over,
once as free objects and again as
shreds of simple possibility.
Exhibition
Text: Shana Agid
Hope
Hilton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and resides in Brooklyn,
NYC where she is pursuing her MFA at Hunter College in New York
City. Hilton is a cum laude graduate of the Atlanta College of Art
(2003) and co-founder of the Atlanta artist collective Dos Pestañeos,
which organized Use Your Illusion I in 2003 (hailed by the local
weekly Creative Loafing as “one of the best locally produced
exhibitions of the year”) and This is the Future at Saltworks
Gallery in 2004. Her work often questions what truth and belief
are, using her personal history and popular culture as inspiration.
She has exhibited widely and has been the recipient of numerous
awards. In May 2005,You are My Salvation, an exhibition space for
collaboration and events, opened in her studio in Manhattan. As
an artist, Hilton curates, collaborates, designs, writes and walks.
She is a recent recipient of the “Good Earthling Award”,
presented in the form of a grant by the artist Harrell Fletcher.
Recently, Hilton completed a twenty-mile walk in the Southern United
States, recognizing the walk a slave named Henry made to announce
the birth of her great-great grandmother.
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