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Douglas White, New Skin for an Old Ceremony, 2011 |
While travelling in East Africa ten years ago, artist Douglas White chanced upon the rotting remains of a dead elephant. "The image of that scene has always stayed with me," he writes. "It was a visceral encounter. Here was a body become landscape, a body both present and absent in which the distinction between the inner and outer had evaporated in the heat and decay." Check out White's uncanny and wonderfully skin-like clay sculptures, inspired by this experience.
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Douglas White, Song of the Pachyderms II, Clay and steel table, 2011 |
Douglas White, New Skin for an Old Ceremony runs until 12 November 2011 at Paradise Row, 74 Newman Street, London W1T 3DB.
Visit paradiserow.com and douglaswhite.co.uk