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Jim Hodges Untitled, 1991 Silver chain, 20 × 20 in. Collection of Christy Ferer
Echoing his nearby mirror, this untitled work draws on the spiderweb motif Hodges has used since the late 1980s. It is fabricated from silver chain, reinforcing the web’s notorious tensile strength. Viewed alongside the adjacent Pompeian fragment, the web suggests the spider’s maternal drive to make a home. By evoking the indiscriminatory threat of the sticky fibers— which can entrap unassuming victims, prey or not—it can also be seen as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that shook Hodges’s community. —HJ
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