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Inka Essenhigh — "Mass Suicide" from Special Forces #2
Inka Essenhigh

"Mass Suicide" from Special Forces #2

A swirling, hallucinatory composition rendered in Essenhigh's signature sinuous lines and luminous oil enamel, depicting anonymous figures merging and dissolving into one another in a fluid, almost cartoonish choreography of collective destruction. The smooth, glossy surface amplifies the work's unsettling tension between decorative beauty and dark subject matter, as bodies appear to melt into a shared, undulating fate. Essenhigh transforms an act of mass tragedy into something disturbingly elegant, blurring the boundary between violence and ornament.

Medium
oil enamel on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

May 17, 2013

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Inka Essenhigh, "Mass Suicide" from Special Forces #2

A swirling, hallucinatory composition rendered in Essenhigh's signature sinuous lines and luminous oil enamel, depicting anonymous figures merging and dissolving into one another in a fluid, almost cartoonish choreography of collective destruction. The smooth, glossy surface amplifies the work's unsettling tension between decorative beauty and dark subject matter, as bodies appear to melt into a shared, undulating fate. Essenhigh transforms an act of mass tragedy into something disturbingly elegant, blurring the boundary between violence and ornament.

Medium
oil enamel on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Pop Surrealism, Narrative Art, Comic Influenced, Oil Enamel On Canvas, Contemporary Artist, American Artist, Figurative Art, Female Artist, Vibrant Colors, Dark Humor

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