The act of gesture with the wind. And in that, there is pleasure
Sculpture/installation. Steel, cloth, wax.
To lose the face is to lose a means by which others identify you, to become alien, unfamiliar. “Because, you know, the face is identity a Therapeutic tells Nastassja Martin (b.1986, anthropologist) after she was facially disabled by a bear in Siberia. In the aftermath of the brutal encounter, the author of In the Eye of the Wild description itself as an indigenous and uncertain form.
On April 28, 1958, Klein presented an exhibition at the Iris Clert Gallery in Paris, neverly empty, whitewashed space. There was nothing on display, the absence was the artwork. It inspired imagination, come a powerful presence. Albert Camus controlled this paradise by watching in the guestbook, “s deep bone, ”Wes Klein's Wide (The Void) shows how experience can be seen in the power and animals).
Photo credits: Sisters Lumière/ @sisters_lumiere
The work in pictures.