"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"CREMASTER 5" (1997)
"CREMASTER 5," 1997
Production still
Photo by Michael James O’Brien, © Matthew Barney
Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Production still
Photo by Michael James O’Brien, © Matthew Barney
Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"The cremaster are a set of muscles that control the height of the internal reproductive system in the male. I took that one as a title for a couple reasons, primarily in that the story, over the course of five chapters, has to do with a kind of system whose state is fluctuating, not necessarily literally as a reproductive system, but as a system whose identity is changing."
- Matthew Barney
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