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Focus & Homages / Matthew Barney

Cremaster 2 is rendered as a gothic western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Barney’s abstraction of this process, the system tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1. Cremaster 2 embodies this regressive impulse through its looping narrative, moving from 1977, the year of Gary Gilmore’s execution,  to 1893, when Harry Houdini, who may have been Gilmore’s grandfather, performed at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

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Year: 1999
Format: DM
Color: Color
Minutes: 79
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