Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Guest 12:38 pm 8th November 1996 (MB)
Christopher Bucklow British
Not on view
To create this curious, luminous picture, Christopher Bucklow photographed the sun using a multiple pinhole camera constructed from a cardboard box. The apertures, punched out in a pattern, allowed him to make thousands of images simultaneously. Together these tiny images of the sun join like atoms to form a larger body—in this case, a human figure, which happens to be the visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. According to Bucklow, he will only photograph a "Guest" if he has dreamt about them, explaining that these bodies represent sub-selves and that "one’s friends are psychologically significant mirrors of one’s own interior."
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