edmund law :: past work
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of my tongue 2002 120” x 216” (installation) 9” x 4” x 4” each half wooden bowls, water, magnets, skin hosts Nine 1/2 wooden bowls fastened to the wall in a spiral based on the golden ratio. The main group of bowls is at 72” high and slightly right of centre on the wall. All but one is above this height. The one bowl you can see into is at floor level. They are all filled with water. Tethered horizontally above each bowl is a pair of skin hosts. The hosts hover above the water without touching it or each other. This is done using magnets. “law uses his own skin to make unleavened bread, rolling and baking it in the form of thin hosts; a personal rewriting of an ancient and macabre sacrifice. The enigmatic, ritualized installation that results combines compulsion with religious symbolism, intense subjectivity with narcissism, the abject with the sublime. The essential self-sufficiency of the process challenges an easy or orthodox reading while it beguiles us with elements of purely human desire. Though he acknowledges that the christian imagery this work excites may conflict with his personal reasons for making it, law will only own up to so much. ‘Offering myself up for consumption is both titillating and transcendent. I don’t want everyone to understand’ “ - Bonnie Devine, Curator |
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