Andres Serrano was born in 1950 in New York. He studied art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and had his first exhibition in 1985. His photographic series deal with the question of the body, address social issues, and tackle the topics of sex, gender, and religion. A vast retrospective of his work was organized at the Barbican Centre in London in 2001, and another in 2006 by the Lambert Collection in Avignon.
The featured work, part of the series The Morgue, was acquired by CNAP in 1993. Here, the artist focuses on the details of the body and produces images at the intersection between forensic photography and Baroque painting.
This work is registered in the inventory of the National Collection of Contemporary Art, that the CNAP has, as its mission, to enrich, preserve and disseminate.
Thanks to Pascal Beausse, head of the photographic collections, and to the teams of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques who have allowed this project to be carried out.Coordination: Communications and Information at CNAP
Translation: L’Œil de la Photographie.
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