"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"CREMASTER 1" (1995)
"CREMASTER 1," 1995
Production still
Photo by Peter Strietmann, © 1995 Matthew Barney
Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Production still
Photo by Peter Strietmann, © 1995 Matthew Barney
Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"In the interest of creating a system that has an internal logic, I think there are points in the story where biological systems are referred to or used as art direction in a certain way. I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. It's a desire in the sense of a kind of sexual desire."
- Matthew Barney
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