"Warren's sculpture remains alien to postmodernism. Not only does it call attention to the expressive marks of the artist's hand, but it evades literary meaning: her sculptures cannot be read...Fundamentally, the avoidance of finish in Warren's work implies a swerve away, not only from form towards formlessness, but also thereby from meaning towards the ruin of meaning....
A sculpture may remind us of a human body but that does not necessarily mean it represents a body: a sculpture may mimic a female form or a male form but does sculpture really have a gender? It is probably more likely that we treat the person as an object than the object as a person, but in neither case is our behaviour based on any reality but that of our own desires. The intricate evasion of meaning in art is of value because it makes the object into a mirror.."
Fragments by Barry Schabsky for Rebecca Warren Serpentine Gallery Catalogue 2009
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