2003.24.3, Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 3: The Entered Novitiate, 2002, c print

Dressed in 1930s fashions, Matthew Barney and the athlete, model, and actress Aimee Mullins stand back-to-back in the Cloud Club [2003.24.1.a-d] nightclub itself. They represent Barney’s character as the apprentice architect and a female version of the same architect. This doubling device in the story is realized visually in the mirrored details of each half of the photograph. The orange and green of the carpet call attention, as they do throughout the film, to the colors of the official flag of the Republic of Ireland, a source of Barney’s artistic identity. His photographs distill moments from the plot in a format associated with traditional photographic portraits.

Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 53.

Until 2003: Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York [1]

From 2003: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above 

[1] See copy of check #10574 in Collections Records Object File 2003.24.3

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