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"Artists have such a strange relation to the face, to our lumpen forms. ... No matter what gratuitous things they do it, whatever fingers clawed through it, we recognize it. Perhaps reason to hate it, through the violence it remains, you can get a smile."
And the face is a surface display, a graphical user interface, like a particularly nuanced iPad, so why not peacock its plumage, blast it with painting.
see too: Chloe Seibert at Mickey, The violence against faces., Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Rhona Hoffman & Genesis Tramaine at Almine Rech