"I still think the social function of art is that kind of negative aesthetic. Otherwise there’s no social function for it."
"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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