untitled (NS; double index)

Robert Flynt

2009 · Inkjet print · Photographs

Flynt’s recent work continues a longstanding exploration of the beauty and fragility of the body—sometimes overtly and powerfully as a direct response to the AIDS crisis, sometimes subtly in a way more akin to a philosophical investigation of the nature of life and death. In this work, two mirrored, ghostly, negative images of a figure float across the open spread of a medical book index; the human figure is superimposed over a litany of diseases: Glass in wound, Goiter, Gonorrhea, Granuloma, Growth of epithelium, Gunshot wound. . . .

Artist

Robert Flynt

Date

2009

Medium

Inkjet print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2012