A body that doesn't withdraw.

Figures without protection. Neither expressive nor symbolic.
Presence held longer than one would like.

Rustin’s turn to figuration in the 1970s was not a stylistic shift but an existential decision, producing a world of naked figures in bare interiors, where loneliness, shame and tenderness appear without hierarchy, without narrative, without exit.

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Éditions de l’Équinoxe
1984
Language: French


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