“…it comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It’s all stuff in the world going through you as a filter.”
—Rebecca Warren
Provenance
Maureen Paley, London Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
Warren says about her work that ‘it comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It’s all stuff in the world going through you as a filter …’
hand-painted clay on painted MDF plinth sculpture 56.3 x 34 x 26.5 cm (22 1/8 x 13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.) plinth 108.5 x 35 x 35 cm (42 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.) overall 164.8 x 35 x 35 cm (64 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.) Executed in 2009.