untitled (NS; double index)
Flynt’s recent work continues a longstanding exploration of the beauty and fragility of the body—sometimes overtly and powerfully as a direct response to the AIDS crisis, sometimes subtly in a way more akin to a philosophical investigation of the nature of life and death.
In this work, two mirrored, ghostly, negative images of a figure float across the open spread of a medical book index; the human figure is superimposed over a litany of diseases: Glass in wound, Goiter, Gonorrhea, Granuloma, Growth of epithelium, Gunshot wound. . . .
In this work, two mirrored, ghostly, negative images of a figure float across the open spread of a medical book index; the human figure is superimposed over a litany of diseases: Glass in wound, Goiter, Gonorrhea, Granuloma, Growth of epithelium, Gunshot wound. . . .
Artwork Details
- Title: untitled (NS; double index)
- Artist: Robert Flynt (American, born 1956)
- Date: 2009
- Medium: Inkjet print
- Dimensions: Image: 27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2012
- Object Number: 2012.20
- Rights and Reproduction: © Robert Flynt
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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