Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, United States
On Longterm View
We Come in Peace (2018), a monumental bronze sculpture by Huma Bhabha, is now on view in the newly revitalized sculpture garden at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
Originally conceived as a rooftop commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the towering, many-faced figure stands more than 12 feet tall. First hand-carved in cork and Styrofoam and subsequently cast in bronze, the work draws its title from Robert Wise’s 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Embedded within a long sculptural tradition extending from ancient Eastern statuary through Western classicism to modernism, We Come in Peace poses questions about the familiar and unfamiliar, the alien and the native.
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