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Liv FONTAINE British, b. 1989

Happiness Is Coming, 2019

Pen and pencil on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

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Playing on words, the image of the reclining nude, and addressing public habits of culture signalling, Happiness is Coming portrays an actress in a scene of Fake Taxi. A surreal...

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Playing on words, the image of the reclining nude, and addressing public habits of culture signalling, Happiness is Coming portrays an actress in a scene of Fake Taxi. A surreal scene unfolds; knives and forks engage in a hallucinatory dance, voyeuristic eyes peer through the window, acid-house smiles fill the ceiling and her male counterpart grins, anonymous and de-humanised, his head made of slime, penis of a serpent and thigh branded with conflicting words: ‘FIXER/PROBLEM’.

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