Here, Hiorns reprises the theme of an earlier series of crude paintings that depict sex between unidentifiable men, pairing this work with a diaphanous sculpture that continues his interest in brain membranes and their role in perception.
A similar attempt to read sex and desire (abstracted from specific identities) is at play in Roger Hiorns’s exhibition at London’s Corvi-Mora. But, Cooper goes on to say, it also demonstrates bodily resistance to appropriations, submitting the meaning-making mouth to an internal blankness. In a 2011 interview in The Paris Review, American novelist Dennis Cooper describes rimming as a means of identifying the interior life of a subject.