Delacroix’s Foreign Bodies

Delacroix’s Foreign Bodies
Oil paint on wood panel, 50 x 25.4 cm
2024

Delacroix’s Foreign bodies extract the Barbary Lions from their aggressive postures in Delacroix’s original paintings. Here, the creatures are hosts for sleeping bodies. They possess an interior depth, suggesting that the original exteriors were merely performances. Employing concepts of stillness and sleep, we discover a tenderness Delacroix was unwilling to contemplate.

Commissioned by 421 Arts Campus.

Photos: Seeing Things Studio

Alla Abdunabi

Alla Abdunabi

Are your memories of me enough for you?
Lion Attacking a Dromedary
Yet, I endured for you
tooth and a folly
Delacroix’s Foreign Bodies
taste sweet, taste bitter
Love that reassembles fragments
Second Skin
Porous Passage
Gardens of Paradise

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Alla Abdunabi

Alla Abdunabi

Are your memories of me enough for you? Lion Attacking a Dromedary Yet, I endured for youtooth and a folly Delacroix’s Foreign Bodiestaste sweet, taste bitterLove that reassembles fragments Second Skin Porous Passage Gardens of Paradise About | Contact

Are your memories of me enough for you?
Lion Attacking a Dromedary
Yet, I endured for you
tooth and a folly
Delacroix’s Foreign Bodies
taste sweet, taste bitter
Love that reassembles fragments
Second Skin
Porous Passage
Gardens of Paradise

About | Contact