Doug Aitken - [excerpt]

For want of a fortuitous body-part, the gallery-goer needs to spend time in the looking, the search of what will not become visible before the eyes get used to the certain humongous mix. Suddenly you visualize a skull’s head “painted in place” while feminine members, arms and legs, become part of the certain landscape. To a point that when you find/read Skulldiver IV’s name, you feel the inescapable relief prone to turn the switch off. You have stopped looking, but you haven’t seen enough.

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Next you discover the clear reference to other artists. The artist herself has something to say about it:
“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”