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AZIZ + CUCHER.(Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher)(Brief Article)

Artforum International,  March, 2001  by Israel, Nico

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HENRY URBACH ARCHITECTURE

For almost a decade, Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher have explored the materiality and frangibility of the human (or humanoid) body. In their most recent photographic installations, the duo denaturalizes and reconfigures human skin complete with freckles, spots, pores, and hair follicles--to form deep, dark architectural spaces, twisted sculptural shapes like pieces of odd furniture, and mutant scientific specimens to be analyzed. These hybrid agglutinations are alternately clinical and fantastic, inviting and disgusting.

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