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Glen Luchford & Jenny Saville — Closed Contact #16

Closed Contact #16

1995

Closed Contact #16 is a striking chromogenic print mounted in Plexiglas, created through the collaborative vision of photographer Glen Luchford and painter Jenny Saville. The work captures Saville's nude figure pressed against a glass surface, distorting and flattening the flesh into unsettling, painterly formations that blur the boundary between photography and fine art. The cold, clinical mounting in Plexiglas reinforces the sense of confinement and compression, amplifying the visceral tension between the body and its transparent barrier.

Medium
chromogenic print mounted in Plexiglas

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Glen Luchford & Jenny Saville, Closed Contact #16, 1995

Closed Contact #16 is a striking chromogenic print mounted in Plexiglas, created through the collaborative vision of photographer Glen Luchford and painter Jenny Saville. The work captures Saville's nude figure pressed against a glass surface, distorting and flattening the flesh into unsettling, painterly formations that blur the boundary between photography and fine art. The cold, clinical mounting in Plexiglas reinforces the sense of confinement and compression, amplifying the visceral tension between the body and its transparent barrier.

Medium
chromogenic print mounted in Plexiglas
Year
1995
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodern Art, Collaboration, Plexiglas Mounted, Figurative Realism, Collaborative Work, Large Format Photography, Female Figurative Art, Distorted Bodies, Flesh Tones, Female Figure, Contemporary Photography, Chromogenic Print, Figurative Art, Body Study, Raw Intensity, British Artists, Large Format, Visceral Imagery, Intimate Portraiture

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