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There are few contemporary artists who have explored the messy complexity of the body, gender and sex to the same extent as British artist Sarah Lucas. Coming to prominence in the early \u201890s as a member of the notorious Young British Artist group (other members included Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst) Lucas made a name for herself as an outspoken and subversive artist absolutely disinterested in making tame, crowd-pleasing art. Instead, her work is characterised by its brash, spirited humour and its audacious ability to overturn gendered stereotypes. Her 2013 exhibition<\/a> at London\u2019s Whitechapel Gallery, for example, presented room after room of penises \u2014 from ludicrous wallpaper to unctuous sculptures and stony monuments, Lucas compelled visitors to consider the tenuous state of masculinity. Exhibitions such as this one illustrate her unrivaled ability to wield laughter and disgust in order to reveal the fragility of the human condition.<\/p>\n

Despite the frank and provocative nature of Lucas\u2019 art, the New Museum is the first American institution to show a major survey<\/a> of her work. Au Naturel<\/i>, which opened on Wednesday in New York, presents an extensive exploration of her career over the past 30 years. For all its lewd suggestion and tongue-in-cheek perversion, it’s the masterful use of material that makes her work stand out. As the writer Maggie Nelson notes, \u201cIt\u2019s a capacity to work with fairly plain materials until they shimmer into something uncanny and precise, akin to summoning a fetish\u201d. As Lucas says herself, her work \u201cjumps to life\u201d \u2014 her art beats with a vital, queasy energy that encompasses so much of what it means to be a person, full of desire and shame and raw, untempered feeling.<\/p>\n

On the opening of this exhibition, we take five of Lucas\u2019 key works to ascertain why her work is still as gutsy and electrifying as ever.<\/p>\n

1. Self-Portrait with Fried Eggs<\/em> (1994)<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70713,"id":70713,"title":"240764_SC_Eggs","filename":"Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","filesize":651194,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sarah-lucas-new-museum\/240764_sc_eggs\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Self-portrait with Fried Eggs\", 1996. \u00a9 Sarah Lucas. ","name":"240764_sc_eggs","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70712,"date":"2018-09-27 13:37:58","modified":"2018-09-27 15:55:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1308,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","thumbnail-width":65,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","medium-width":1308,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","medium_large-width":1308,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","large-width":1308,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","1536x1536-width":1046,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","2048x2048-width":1308,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Self-Portrait-with-Fried-Eggs.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1308,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Perhaps the definitive Lucas work, this iconic self-portrait represents much of what we have come to know and love about her art. In many of her self-portraits, Lucas appropriates the conventions of masculinity, drawing into question the stability of gendered identities through humour and performance. In this one, Lucas, dressed in ripped straight leg jeans, a black t-shirt and robust construction site shoes, slouches on an armchair with her legs outstretched \u2014\u00a0a bold iteration of what’s now known as the classic manspread. The cool confidence and self-assured attitude is crudely disrupted by the humorous insertion of two runny splats of fried eggs. Made at a time in the \u201890s when obnoxious beer-swilling lad culture was at a zenith in the British cultural imagination, Lucas\u2019 portrait pokes fun at the perception of gender as solid and serious.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Au Naturel<\/em> (1994)<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70714,"id":70714,"title":"Au Naturel","filename":"Au-Naturel.jpg","filesize":407715,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sarah-lucas-new-museum\/au-naturel\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Au Naturel\", 1994. \u00a9 Sarah Lucas","name":"au-naturel","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70712,"date":"2018-09-27 13:43:31","modified":"2018-09-27 15:54:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1503,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","thumbnail-width":123,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1503,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1503,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1503,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1202,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1503,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":15,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Au-Naturel.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1503}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Famously exhibited at Charles Saatchi\u2019s scandalous\u00a0Sensation<\/em><\/a> exhibition in the Royal Academy in 1997 (later at the Brooklyn Museum),<\/span> Au Naturel <\/span><\/i>is one of Lucas\u2019 most critically-lauded works, even lending its name to the New Museum retrospective. In this piece, a squashed, stained mattress lies on the floor. Two melons poke out of the folds along with a discarded bucket, a comically erect cucumber and two suggestively-positioned oranges. Like most of Lucas\u2019 works, what you see is what you get. The meaning is exactly the connotation: objects as substitutes for genitalia \u2014 the brazen implication of sex. In its unflinching simplicity, <\/span>Au Naturel<\/span><\/i> not only captures the baseness of human desire, but also demonstrates Lucas’ capacity as an artist \u2014 as art historian Anne Wagner so succinctly puts it her catalogue essay\u2014 “to mine the semantic possibilities of everyday things\u201d. The smartness of <\/span>Au Naturel <\/span><\/i>is<\/span>\u00a0in the suggestion, the wink-wink nudge-nudge in the deliberate placement of humble objects. <\/span><\/p>\n

3. Bunny gets Snookered<\/em> (1997)<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70715,"id":70715,"title":"Bunny Gets Snookered #8","filename":"Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","filesize":348995,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sarah-lucas-new-museum\/bunny-gets-snookered-8\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Bunny Gets Snookered #8\", 1997. \u00a9 Sarah Lucas","name":"bunny-gets-snookered-8","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70712,"date":"2018-09-27 13:44:11","modified":"2018-09-27 15:53:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1490,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","thumbnail-width":75,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","medium-width":1490,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","medium_large-width":1490,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","large-width":1490,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","1536x1536-width":1192,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","2048x2048-width":1490,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bunny-Gets-Snookered-8.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1490,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

\u201cI made the first Bunny<\/em> almost accidentally, meaning I didn\u2019t have a clear idea of where I was\u00a0<\/span>heading with the tights I was stuffing,\u201d says Lucas about how her famous Bunnies<\/em> \u2014 uncanny corporeal forms made from stuffed tights \u2014 came about. <\/span>Bunny Gets Snookered<\/span><\/i> was first exhibited at Sadie Coles\u2019 gallery in London, consisting of eight knotty forms positioned around a snooker table. The Bunnies<\/em> are key works in Lucas\u2019 canon, highlighting her keen engagement with Surrealism \u2014 notably Hans Bellmer\u2019s eerie dolls and Louise Bourgeois\u2019 cloth sculptures \u2014 and her ability to allude to the body through a deft manipulation of material. In these soft structures, nylon stockings become flesh, making apparent the shape-shifting fluidity of the body and the strange gendered connotations we ascribe to things \u2014in this case tights as a locum for the female body. But, like with <\/span>Au Naturel <\/span><\/i>all the meaning resides in the material, as Lucas says herself, \u201cTights are so sexy in a way\u201d. Her Bunnies<\/em> would later transform into the solidified NUDS<\/em> \u2014 plump, tangled sculptures evoking the fleshiness of the body despite their hard materiality.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Nature abhors a vacuum <\/i>(1998)<\/strong><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70718,"id":70718,"title":"Nature Abhors a Vacuum","filename":"Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","filesize":679151,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sarah-lucas-new-museum\/nature-abhors-a-vacuum\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Nature Abhors a Vacuum\", 1998. \u00a9 Sarah Lucas. ","name":"nature-abhors-a-vacuum","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70712,"date":"2018-09-27 14:05:09","modified":"2018-09-27 15:54:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1889,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","thumbnail-width":76,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1889,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1889,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1889,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","1536x1536-width":1220,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1889,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Nature-Abhors-a-Vacuum.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1889}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Due to the bawdy irreverence of her work, Lucas\u2019 corpus frequently demonstrates a cheeky toilet humour that sometimes manifests into versions of actual toilets. <\/span>Nature abhors a vacuum<\/span><\/i> is one such example of her interest in bodily humour and taboo, rendering a toilet out of cigarettes. Needless to mention, it\u2019s a strange marriage of ideas, combining the scatological with the oral fixation of smoking. Of course, the implementation of a toilet in a gallery space is a typically brass-necked Lucas move, one which recalls Duchamp\u2019s infamous urinal and the sticky issue as to what constitutes a piece of art in the first place. <\/span>Nature abhors a vacuum<\/span><\/i> is not the only work revolving around the dark abyss of the toilet bowl; in another famous piece, <\/span>Is Suicide Genetic<\/span><\/i>? (1996) she scrawls these chilling words around the filthy rim in brown paint. For Lucas, toilets \u201ccarry a lurid fascination\u201d making us acutely aware of our own crude humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.Great Dates<\/em> (1992)<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70742,"id":70742,"title":"Great Dates","filename":"Great-Dates.jpg","filesize":792953,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sarah-lucas-new-museum\/great-dates\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Great Dates\", 1992. \u00a9 Sarah Lucas","name":"great-dates","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70712,"date":"2018-09-27 15:48:13","modified":"2018-09-27 15:53:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1240,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","thumbnail-width":62,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","medium-width":1240,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","medium_large-width":1240,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","large-width":1240,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","1536x1536-width":992,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","2048x2048-width":1240,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Great-Dates.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1240,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

In this final example, Lucas employs British tabloid cuttings to reveal the absurdity of gendered representations in the media. Back in the late \u201880s\/ early \u201890s \u2014 the golden age of the red tops \u2014 titles such as The Sun, The Mirror and The Daily Sport splashed voluptuous, half-naked women across their pages. In a comic turning of the tables \u2014 by including her self-portrait in the collage \u2014 Lucas mocks this salacious culture by both participating in it (the typically suggestive action of eating a banana) and by subverting it (the look she gives the camera is more \u201cDon\u2019t mess with me\u201d rather than come hither). Although Page 3 might be a thing of the past, the obsessive interest in women\u2019s bodies has reached new heights in the age of the internet, and Lucas\u2019 fearless commentary still packs as much of a punch today as it did in the\u00a0<\/span>early ’90s.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

“Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel<\/a>” runs until 20 January 2019 at the New Museum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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