
Drawing Restraint 9: The Terrestrials
Two chromogenic prints capture Matthew Barney's enigmatic visual world, depicting elaborately costumed figures engaged in ritualistic ceremony aboard a Japanese whaling vessel. The images blend themes of transformation, mythology, and bodily constraint through Barney's signature aesthetic of dense symbolic layering. The works are housed in self-lubricating plastic frames, a material integral to Barney's practice that references industrial lubrication and the cyclical tension between resistance and release.
- Medium
- 2 chromogenic prints, in self-lubricating plastic frames
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
March 7, 2014
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