Thomas Schütte – United Enemies Installation View

5 October 2017 · Paris

Four framed photographic prints from Thomas Schütte's United Enemies series hang in sequence along a white gallery wall. The largest print dominates the foreground: two grotesque, exaggerated figurative heads — one pale and skull-like, one blue-tinted — face each other against a dark background. Schütte's sculptural figures are both absurd and unsettling, playful in their distortion yet precise in what they accuse. The work turns the gallery wall into a stage, each frame a scene in a confrontation that never resolves.