Midweek motivation courtesy of the late, great Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow—captured here by the French photographer Roger Gain. Szapocznikow was fascinated by the human bodily experience, and dedicated much of her work from the 1960s onwards to creating an “intimate record of both her memories and her own body in the present”, to quote Hauser & Wirth. This 1968 piece saw the artist carve two vast female tummies out of hard Carrara marble, placing one atop the other in a typically uncanny manner. The stomach, she noted of the piece, “cannot (…) unlike the legs, breasts or mouth, be turned into a fetish. It eludes its logic.” But we think it looks rather tactile.
