AboutEssays1991These Deformed Clay Busts

At six o’clock on a cool evening at the 53rd Venice Biennale in the Gervasuti Foundation, sixty neo-classical clay busts stood upon plinths in regimented rows. The effect, through uniform repetition, was that of an army of heads, eyes unblinking, expression fixed. The busts and their number were facts. In the solid realm of physical reality, they could be seen and counted. This much was certain.

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