Claude Cahun • Object • 1936
This is a seriously creepy piece. It would be a silly Surrealist trope, but there is something about that eye and that hair. It is like the original Twilight Zone, a trophy for Hans Bellmer, or something out of Eraserhead.
The Final list for AIC's Society for Contemporary Art selection committee is:
Helena Almeida
Charles LeDray
Rosemarie Trockel
Franz West
Also there is the possibility of a “surprise guest” addition.
An anonymous tipster says it may well be James Coleman.
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When I saw the name Claude Cahun, this is definitely not what I expected to see.
With the cloud cutting through the eyeball, I can't help but think of the infamous Un chien andalou. And the hair gives my the willies in a manner similar to the fur on Meret Oppenheim's own Object.
But that hair reminds me of something else, too—something very specific that I just can't put my finger on, perhaps much more recent, but definitely abjectly grotesque...
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