RED SKY portraits of Sarah Lucas; photography and printing by Julian Simmons.
Edition of 3.
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A set of 6 + 1, framed prints on Hahnemühle 100% cotton rag, matte surface, 308gsm; archival matte ink; AR museum glass.
Image size: 59 x 44″, framed size: 60 x 45 x 2.4″.
RED SKY AH
RED SKY BHA
RED SKY CAH
RED SKY DAH
RED SKY FA
RED SKY GHA
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RED SKY HA
‘RED SKY (2018), a self-portrait smoking series that easily scoffs off any criticism and more importantly seems to laugh in the face of death. Whilst firmly rooted in the irreverent humour of Britain, DAME ZERO is able to securely locate itself within (as if emerging from) the context of Mexico. Embracing the hedonistic and self-destructive impulses that can be found in both British and Mexican society, it teases a bridge between the two cultures, made by our shared experiences of sex, illness, violence and death.’
Elliott Burns, thisistomorrow
‘DAME ZERO, where a woman is intuited, perhaps a self-portrait of the artist, which holds a skull in her crotch – an unquestionable death speech: life is a vice that is consumed. The resource is repeated, again, but in another medium; in this case, a series of self-portraits of the artist, which crown the exhibition, entitled RED SKY, in which Lucas poses in front of the camera, smoking compulsively: the lens portrays the movement of the artist, in denial of a precise recording; the shutter poetises the cigarette smoke that surrounds her, that makes her anonymous, a being that can not be stopped, defined, or dissected by analysis.’
Translated from the article ‘Un viaje al Mictlán con Sarah Lucas / A trip to the underworld with Sarah Lucas’, Javier Villaseñor V. CÓDIGO
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The ‘ABC’ set of 6, RED SKY – AH / BHA / CAH / DAH / FA / GHA :
RED SKY AH
RED SKY BHA
RED SKY CAH
RED SKY DAH
RED SKY FA
RED SKY GHA
RED SKY HA
: detail from print RED SKY DAH
: detail from print RED SKY GHA
