Sebums (d)

细节

Nicolas Deshayes (B. 1983)
Sebums (d)
vacuum formed plastic on anodised aluminium
42 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 3 1/8in. (109 x 70.7 x 8cm.)
Executed in 2012

来源

Jonathan Viner Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above in 2012.

展览

London, Jonathan Viner, Nicolas Deshayes: Browns in Full Colour, 2012.
London, Saatchi Gallery, New Order: British Art Today, 2013 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Operating at what he calls ‘the threshold between liquid and solid,’ Nicolas Deshayes’s works examine the interface between the human body and its constructed environments. Sebums (d) is part of a series whose title refers to the oily or waxy matter secreted by our pores; an idea uneasily echoed by the work’s rectangular pool of white plastic, framed in black against a field of bluish anodised aluminium. The plastic churns like fluid skin, while the aluminium’s bruised tones have a similarly corporeal quality. Both surfaces are industrially produced – the plastic vacuum-formed, the metal’s colouring controlled through chemical oxidation – yet they come together in a distinctly human tableau. Our messy, porous and uncontrollable bodies exist in stark contrast to our packaged, hygienic modes of living. Deshayes brings forth the organic from the slickly synthetic, exploring these contradictions of surface to find the skin of modernity itself.