“Casting is problematic, it’s like playing freeze tag, you cast people in all these different positions and they’re frozen. The wax museums didn’t make casts of people, they made sculptures of them. Casting, like photography, is a single moment. Whereas if you sculpt people’s faces, it’s a more generalized version of the person, but in a certain sense more accurate than one specific second of them.”
—Kiki Smith
Provenance
PaceWildenstein, New York Private Collection, Stamford (acquired from the above in 1995) PaceWildenstein, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 2007
Exhibited
New York, PaceWildenstein, Kiki Smith: New Work, September 16–October 21, 1995, pp. 1, 13 (illustrated, p. 1)
signed and inscribed "Girl Kiki Smith" on the cleat; signed and dated "Kiki Smith 1995" on the figure's proper left foot palladium leaf on silicon bronze 48 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (123.8 x 41.3 x 28.6 cm) Executed in 1995, this work is unique.