Cloche, installed. (image — Neil Roberts)
Even the title of this survey, Flesh Winnow, speaks to the local effects of European and North American Modernism. The title is a pun on Marcel Duchamp's post-war work, Fresh Widow, itself a pun on the form of the work, a french window. In this work, Duchamp replaced panes of glass with black leather. An instruction accompanies the work that the panes ‘should be shined every day like shoes’. It is a work about mourning, an emotionally precise evocation of those experiences that can neither be contained nor explained, but only experienced, or evoked.
(From Sarah Miller's introduction to the Flesh Winnow anthology of essays)