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Matt Pieknik

Crude Thoughts & Fierce Forces: Matthew Barney’s “River of Fundament”

By Matt Pieknik × Criticism

Fundament represents a radical desublimation of the obsession with sex and death. In its unflinching presentation of the twin poles of mortality, what was previously obscene has shifted to center stage, to the stomach’s chagrin…