Cornelia Parker is a contemporary artist from the UK. She works in sculpture and installation art, using a variety of materials. Most of the work she makes involves the "destruction" of an object or collection of objects. I put destruction in quotes because it maybe isn't the best term. It is more like the transformation of the objects through a typically destructive process: exploding, burning, stretching, squashing, dropping, smashing, etc. For example, for "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View"(1991), she hired the British Army to blow up a garden shed, then hung the pieces from the ceiling around a light source in the center. She currently has going a series titled "Avoided Object" consisting of different collections of objects that have been transformed in these ways. One example is a collection of shiny metal tableware that have been crushed under a steamroller. What interests me most about her work is the process of creation through destruction. In a way, Parker is redefining destruction as just another form of transformation.more info from the European Graduate School
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