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Adam Fuss: Selected works
From the series 'My Ghost' 1997 (Christening Dress)
From the series 'My Ghost' 1997 (Christening Dress)
'The work', says Fuss, 'is about the passage of that quality of presence, which is not physical, but is still real.' A child's christening robe appears as a shroud devoid of bodily forms. Closer inspection reveals a snake-like figure, one of Fuss's recurring emblems, woven into the fabric.
