Bathelemy Prieur x Charles Ray

“Barthelemy Prieur’s Lion Devouring a Doe. It’s a small, powerful sculpture, and it exists in a long lineage. Not so much of images of lions feasting on prey, or depictions of life-and-death struggles, the food chain is meaningless not due to an existential nihilism but because meaning is emergent from it, rather that it from meaning.”

“My mountain Lion attacking a dog is a cinematic piece of sculpture. I chose silver as a material because of its cinematic reflectivity. Its scale slowly developed over the temporal period of its making.”

“While Prieur’s attack fits in the mind with interference, my sculpture is large enough to roam freely, to fight freely, to exist freely and find a more open place within different regions of the viewer’s mind, his past or present, or his anxiety about the future—or absolutely none of the above.”

– Charles Ray