{"product_id":"lars-van-roosendaal-verurteilung-condemnation-1","title":"Lars van Roosendaal \/ Distribution | Contagion","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e Year: 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e Medium: Acrylic on heavy-weight watercolor paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 33 × 50 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eA figure lies in glowing red against a cobalt blue background: naked, young, defenseless. She is\u003cbr\u003e surrounded by a dense, almost overwhelming mass of de-individualized\u003cbr\u003e Bodies. Silhouettes and oversized hands – grasping or frozen in horror –\u003cbr\u003e They frame the scene. The only reclining figure appears like a newcomer.\u003cbr\u003e in a ceremonial circle: fresh meat, an alien energy source, a\u003cbr\u003e Object of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What initially appears to be an initiation – a symbolic admission into a\u003cbr\u003e a socially ostracized community, yet one desired by the individual concerned\u003cbr\u003e —reveals itself as a possible attack. The oversized beings stare, transfixed—\u003cbr\u003e Not out of empathy, but out of greed, fascination, and sexual hunger. It is\u003cbr\u003e a moment of charged ambivalence: between contact and loss of control,\u003cbr\u003e between attraction and threat, between connection and contagion.\u003cbr\u003e Spread \/ Contagion addresses the fear of losing control: before \u003cbr\u003eAppropriation by a collective, in the face of the unpredictability of sexual\u003cbr\u003e Desire, before being at someone's mercy. The work touches on social issues.\u003cbr\u003e such as HIV, sexualized power relations and group dynamics – but also\u003cbr\u003e intimate questions about purity, vulnerability and the dialectic of touch,\u003cbr\u003e physical exchange and danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The scene is ritually charged – a collective choreography in which boundaries\u003cbr\u003e blurring: between voluntary surrender and structural overpowering,\u003cbr\u003e between longing and projection, between reality and transgression. The\u003cbr\u003e Oversized hands symbolize both protection and appropriation – they\u003cbr\u003e symbolize power relations, collective guilt, and the unspoken.\u003cbr\u003e that nevertheless remains noticeable.\u003cbr\u003e The image speaks of a lack of boundaries and dehumanization, but also of profound...\u003cbr\u003e A longing for belonging – and the fear of dissolving into it.\u003cbr\u003e confronted with socially and individually shaped ideas of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003ePurity and danger, intimacy and threat, body and collective. The\u003cbr\u003e expressive contrasts between cool blue and glowing red – a color,\u003cbr\u003e which stands for blood, danger and the dim light in darkrooms – as well as\u003cbr\u003e between light and darkness, they intensify the emotional tension. The bodies\u003cbr\u003e They remain deliberately blurred – shadowy beings between reality and projection.\u003cbr\u003e This work is part of a triptych, together with Connection \/ Connection\u003cbr\u003e and conviction – three states in the tension between\u003cbr\u003e Proximity and distance, identity and dissolution, self-protection and contact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie Newman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58061394182476,"sku":null,"price":3332.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8842\/0940\/files\/Verurteilung_Condemnation_93b49e06-4b9c-4303-a4ba-eea8846a1504.png?v=1783851411","url":"https:\/\/www.galerie-newman.de\/en\/products\/lars-van-roosendaal-verurteilung-condemnation-1","provider":"Galerie Newman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}