British, Contemporary, bronze, limited edition of 6.
Brought to The Walk by Grob Gallery
Artist - Marc Quinn emerged as a figure preoccupied with what it means to inhabit a body that is at once physical and vulnerable. He would soon become widely known for radical works such as Self (1991), a frozen cast of his own head made from his blood, testing how traditional materials and fragile substances like bread might hold the imprint of lived experience.
Work - What at first reads as a bronze is haunted by its original, perishable body: the porous, kneaded texture of bread, the shifts and slumps it undergoes as it dries, and the knowledge that it was once food all remain encoded in the cast. For The Sculpture Walk’s theme of shared views, the piece offers a quietly radical proposition: that a figure formed from bread, cast for endurance, might stand for the sustenance that bind us together, even as it nods to the late‑1980s “summer of love” and the collective ecstasies of dance culture.