Richard’s Skin, 2026
Gelatin silver prints and pins
50 x 50 cm / 72 x 72 cm

Using the same strategy as in the main installation, “Richard’s Skin” is a collage of gelatinsilver prints creating a reconstitution of the texture of the ‘original-replica’. The indexical nature of photography -and especially analogue methods –creates a direct relationship with the ‘skin’ of the sculpture. This abstract composition gives place to an exercise of rhythm, marked by the silver pins. The placement of the image lower in the frame gives some weight to the composition, bringing something of the heavy steel sculpture that is the origin. As it says in the letter for the artist, “Like many other visitors, I touched you. For no reason, as touching this piece of weathering steel is not so different from others. Yet, there’s this impulse. As if feeling the rough skin would give me a different relationship to you.”

this work was made in the context of the exhibition to vanish