Cornelia Parker is a British artist best known for her installations. Parker uses objects that have strong social, cultural, or historical ties and presents them outside of their original context. One of her more famous pieces, Mass (Colder Darker Matter), was featured at the Turner Prize Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1997. Mass (Colder Darker Matter) features the burnt remains of a church in Texas that was struck by lightening.
In 2005 Parker created a companion piece to Mass (Colder Darker Matter) titled Anti-Mass. This work also featured the charred remains of a church, in this case a predominately Black congregation in Kentucky that was set on fire by arson.
...And because I can't resist, here's one more (unrelated) project by Cornelia. Titled Shared Fate, 1998 this work features objects that were cut using the same guillotine that beheaded Marie Antoinette.
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