SARAH LUCAS: DESCRIBE THIS DISTANCE by Quinn Latimer

“Distance is far, nobody said. (Somebody, surely.)” So begins Quinn Latimer’s strange, elliptical account of an exhibition and a body of work by Sarah Lucas that the poet and critic has never seen, made and installed in a city she had not yet visited.

In four interconnected essays, the writer limns the myriad impressions, ideas, objects, personages, and histories relevant to Lucas’s fantastically transparent yet complicated “NUDs,” and their storied making and installation in Mexico. Exploring shame, passivity, palindromes and fertility statuary, as well as notables including Antonin Artaud, Napoleon, Susan Sontag and Mary Wollstonecraft, “Describe This Distance” is at once an adroit art-historical study and a poetic travelogue, once or twice removed.

2013, published by Mousse Magazine, 96 pages, 12,6 x 18,8 cm