Now and then we should all embrace the horizontals in life. Not as part of the modern feminist association of verticals as phallic monuments of patriarchal history but because to fully embrace horizontals one must confront the angle most ignored in earthly pursuit, that which takes our gazes upward into the void of the undiscovered…
From 2nd - 19th August, ‘I Shall Be Remembered - The story of Madame de Pompadour’. At the Edinburgh International Conference Centre…
Coin de chastete by Marcel Duchamp, 1954. Bronze and dental plastic.
Duchamp gave the original version of this sculpture to his wife on their wedding day, as a form of wedding ring. The bronze wedge has the appearance of being cast from a woman’s genitals. The satisfyingly snug fit of the two halves, and the pink, fleshy tone of the casing, give it an enigmatic, erotic charge.
