26/09/2024
PARADISE LOST
OPEN THU-SAT 3-6PM
Brachial
2023
wax, textile, wood, paper, glue, loam, bone ash
100 x 53 x 64 cm
on view until 29th of September 2024
COUNCIL+
Rathenower Str. 41
10559, Berlin
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The act of getting under the skin in ANAT HOMM’s art includes both violent, erotic, and tender moments. Haut auf Haut presents a series of works where layers of skin rest upon each other. While the upper layers peel away, the underlying skin protects the flesh. A gentle encroachment rather than a direct intervention. In other works where the artist breaks through the epidermis, gaping wounds and exposed entrails spill forth like a bouquet of flowers. The transience and vulnerability of human flesh are primarily revealed through touch, although both themes are also explored visually. Through close study of paintings like Rubens‘ Fall of the Damned, the artist successfully transfers the dynamics of falling from canvas into sculpture. Through their twists and fractures, her wax sculptures lay bare the sinful and the frivolous, the grotesque and the sublime – in short, the ambivalence of human corporeality.
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