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Towards a Warm Embrace

Installation Images

  • In the center of a large, brightly-lit gallery stands a short pedestal, with a tufted rug, and a person kneeling to touch it. Behind the pedestal are other bright artworks about disability culture.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A hand-made rug invites the audience to “touch me tenderly” through text tufted into the rug, and a visitor’s hand gently abides.
    Ezra Benus. Touch Me Tenderly, 2021. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A person sits on a blue bench directly in front of a vinyl wrapped wall sculpture with a repeating black-and-white design, by Brothers Sick. There are clusters of artworks on the surrounding walls.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Ten metal bedpans, arranged on a gallery wall, are suspended by colorful tourniquets, stretched horizontally across the bedpans.
    Ezra Benus. Relax (Sefirot/Tree of Life), 2024. Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Patio furniture stands in front of a grid of neon paper and photos. On the wall to the left hang metal bedpans suspended by colorful bungee cords. In the middle, there is a narrow pedestal with a pink box on top of it.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Two people sitting at a table in a room, washed in a red light. Heating pads and cords are strewn about chairs and benches. On the wall is projected a transcription of an audio installation of Finnegan Shannon and Ezra Bennus discussing the culture around heating pads. Here the captioned audio is, “of warmth, of recognition, of possible pain relief.”
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Hot Hang, 2024. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A person sits at a table in a room filled with orange light touching a heating pad. On the wall is projected a transcription of an audio installation of Finnegan Shannon and Ezra Bennus discussing the culture around heating pads. Here the captioned text is, “Our needs and our ways of being together.”
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Hot Hang, 2024 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Blue and yellow heating pads, covered with fabric artwork of tangled cords, utensils, and text, rests on a dark blue fabric. Two hands gently explore the warm surfaces.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Hot Hang, 2024 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • Fabric wrapped heating pads lie on a blue cyanotype tablecloth. Some of the heating pads are yellow, printed with images of utensils, an orange slice, salt shaker, and fish, tangled in cords. Others are blue, printed with Ezra Benus’s poem about heating pads.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Hot Hang, 2024 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A lone person lays down on a cushioned bench, in a warmly lit room, with a heating pad across their torso. A blue quilt hangs on the wall beside them.
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Installation: Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College. Photo: Eric Mueller.
  • A piece of blue cyanotype cloth with heating pads and cords printed in a lighter blue on it. The words of Ezra Benus’s poem about heating pads are written in white on the cloth. It says things like, “comfort afts over” and “safety of warmth.”
    Ezra Benus and Finnegan Shannon. Sunshine Arms Out, 2024 (detail). Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, Towards a Warm Embrace, 2024. Photo: Eric Mueller.

This project was made possible with support from the Christopher U. Light Lectureship in the Arts and Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation.

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Towards a Warm Embrace

Perlman Teaching Museum
January 11–April 14, 2024
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Towards a Warm Embrace pages maintained by Farrah Pribyl
This page was last updated on 3 December 2025
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