RED

Anish Kapoor is using the colour red and especially red wax as a big part of his art. It fascinates me; the stickiness and roughness of the material contrasting with the very delicate and geometrical ways they are shaped and transformed into beautiful objects, the references to flesh and blood is very obvious. The connection made between the material and surrounding architecture is amazing in Svayambh, an installation where a large red block of wax slowly was pushed through the rooms and the openings between them, leaving traces. I get thoughts of slaughterhouses where meat is transported through the halls. Our unthoughtful relationship to meat is clear; the proportions between the amount of animal flesh that has to be used to create a block big as the one in the installation and ourself as quite "small" human beings is quite provocative.