You Take My Breath Away

"In the dyslexia of a drama or a daily reverie, all the imaginative and intellectual boundaries between what is 'man-made' palpably dissolve, undoing all the easy reconciliation(s) of reason. The eliding of the physical boundaries between a less familiar inside and the known outside, of matter as both material and illusory immaterial, is of an intergral character in the body -based on artworks of Marc Quinn... In the latex body mould 'You Take My Breath Away' (1992) which gives the appearance of sloughed skin of the artist, we find an ironic eschatological reversal of the flesh that was man-made - something like a parady of an embodied person as a disembodied shard or fragment that has been left behind. In a more obtuse way it also parodies the first incarnation narrative of Adam, when God summoned up life from the inert materials of the created world." (M. Gisbourne, 'Dis-incarnate (And whose body is it anyway?)'in: 'Marc Quinn -Incarnate, London 1998 unpaged.)