Three White Plaster Busts, Paris Art Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

Three plaster busts occupy the center of the gallery floor, presented from behind — shoulders fused into a shared base, heads close but not touching. The surface texture of each figure is rough where the hair is worked, smooth where the form resolves into the pedestal. In the background, large-scale paintings with Cyrillic text push red and blue against the white walls. The sculpture holds its ground as the quietest object in the room, and the most substantial.