SARAH LUCAS

Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas's Au Naturel (1994) by asking Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like? Au N aturel is an assemblage of objectsa mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and a cucumberthat suggest male and female body parts. Through much of Lucas's work, and particularly through Au Naturel, Malik argues, we are placed in a position of spectatorship that makes us see sex as so many dismembered parts, with no apparent morality attachedno implication of guilt, shame, or embarrass ment. The sa...[Llegir més]