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Lot Essay
"She's a code-breaker and a ball-buster, a sabateur and a spy. Elegantly in your face, Lucas is a smutty, salt-of-the-earth lout whose unequivocal work is raw and loud and startling. It is also efficient and concise. In her art, Lucas doesn't mince words and she doesn't waste them either. She quickly gets to the point and the point usually has to do with the ways women are viewed in society." ( J. Saltz, 'She Gives as Good as She Gets', Parkett, no.45, 1995, p.177.)
"When I was a teenager I thought, what I'd really like to do in my life is just think and talk. And I tried to pursue that as long as I could. And then it got sort of boring eventually, because if you're not doing anything, you've got nothing to talk about really. Your life has to move on somehow. To me it's just managed to become integral in my life. It's partly like thinking out aloud, I mean, its partly a conversation I'm having with myself. But if I just had it in my head it would disappear. It's a way of doing something in your life and being productive, you know to move on. It's my description of the world, in the same way that my life is my description of the world. Anybody's is. That's what I think it is to me and hopefully for other people. Some sort of useful description." (Sarah Lucas in: I. Goetz, 'Art from the UK: The work is my description of the world'. Munich 1997, p.130.)
"When I was a teenager I thought, what I'd really like to do in my life is just think and talk. And I tried to pursue that as long as I could. And then it got sort of boring eventually, because if you're not doing anything, you've got nothing to talk about really. Your life has to move on somehow. To me it's just managed to become integral in my life. It's partly like thinking out aloud, I mean, its partly a conversation I'm having with myself. But if I just had it in my head it would disappear. It's a way of doing something in your life and being productive, you know to move on. It's my description of the world, in the same way that my life is my description of the world. Anybody's is. That's what I think it is to me and hopefully for other people. Some sort of useful description." (Sarah Lucas in: I. Goetz, 'Art from the UK: The work is my description of the world'. Munich 1997, p.130.)