
When You've Eaten Everything Below You, You'll Devour Youself/Except In Dreams You're Never Really Free
2020
Rendered as a digital archival print on Epson Hot Press Natural 330g/m2 paper, this 2020 work by Celeste Dupuy-Spencer carries the characteristically unrelenting moral weight found throughout her practice. The title, drawn from two intertwined phrases, sets up a cycle of consumption and self-destruction that resonates with Dupuy-Spencer's broader preoccupation with American social fabric, appetite, and the limits of freedom. Her figurative work has long situated itself at the intersection of the spiritual and the profane, and this print extends that sensibility into a more intimate, editioned format, inviting a wider audience into dialogue with her vision without diminishing its urgency. Produced in an edition of fifty and hand-signed by the artist, the work occupies a meaningful position within Dupuy-Spencer's output as an accessible yet considered object. At 61 by 50.2 centimetres, its scale is suited to close, contemplative viewing, the kind of sustained attention her imagery consistently rewards. The choice of Hot Press Natural paper, known for its fine texture and warm tone, lends the print a physicality that softens neither the work's conceptual edge nor its emotional directness. Collectors drawn to politically engaged, emotionally dense contemporary figuration will find in this piece a work that holds its ground with quiet, insistent conviction.
- Medium
- Digital archival print on Epson Hot Press Natural 330g/m2 paper
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Vanguarts Auctions
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