The colourful, enticing universe of Christina Quarles’ artwork is inhabited by not possible configurations of polymorphous bodies and multiple iterations of faces and limbs. What number of figures are unfurling here? What is that this torso transforming into there? To whom do all these feet belong?
Following her participation in last yr’s celebrated exhibition The Milk of Dreams on the Venice Biennale, the Los Angeles-based artist’s latest show Come In From an Infinite Place (at Hauser & Wirth Menorca) elaborates on her fascination with the experience of embodiment and all the enjoyment, trouble, pleasure and precarity integral to living inside a body. “I see this work as being portraiture – not portraiture of a body, but of being in your...
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