Cousins 9

Zoë Charlton

2009

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This work was painted in animated marks that register as pattern and act to blur distinctions between the figures and their setting. Young has imposed compositional order through a stacked vertical arrangement that builds from urban structures to a row of elongated linear figures, a procession that does not so much carry the huge figure above them as celebrate his ascension into the mountains at the top of the image.
A double tree trunk is visible at the bottom of this three-dimensional sculpture. One of the trunks is cut off and the other rises to reveal a human form (a life-size cast of the artist's own body per the object file) within the wood-like structure. Several thin branches protrude from the top.
Wadi Elain, Sinai, Arnold Kramer, C print; paper, Mitsubshi KER type 6000
La cueillette (Fruit-Picking), Bernard Faucon, Fresson print