To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, I (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, ...

Jeffrey Stuker

To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, I (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, Grand Sud, Madagascar, ), 195272.4 x 62.2cmSign in to view price
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pigment print, 8-ply rag museum board, walnut frame
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Jeffrey Stuker
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Jeffrey Stuker
B.1979, American

The most prominent subject of Stuker’s work over the past decade is mimicry, which, as Walter Benjamin asserted in his 1933 essay “The Mimetic Faculty,” is at the basis of all human learning. Today, of course, we can add that it is also at the basis of non-human learning. To evoke a paranoid scenario, this is basically how our cellphones are acceding to take our place in the world. And vice-versa, technological mimicry of human behaviors alerts us to a machinic element that was always already at work within us and perhaps accounts for the drive of the human animal to blend with its environment, to “depersonalize by assimilation to space,” as Roger Caillois described it in his 1936 text “Mimicry and Legendary Psychaesthenia.” If Stuker’s work has sought to trace this philosophical concept of mimicry, which emerges with critical force in the 1930s, it is in order to open its forms to the strange density of the synthetic nature of our era, with its preponderance of computational images. ...

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Feelings out of Season, (Sophocles, Fragments of Inachus): Recto, Verso, Emulsion, Base
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Feelings out of Season, (Sophocles, Fragments of Inachus): Recto, Verso, Emulsion, Base, 2023
To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, I (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, Grand Sud, Madagascar, )
Jeffrey Stuker
To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, I (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, Grand Sud, Madagascar, ), 1952
72.4 x 62.2cm
To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, II (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, Grand Sud, Madagascar, )
Jeffrey Stuker
To the Satisfaction of the Botanist, II (Daphnis nerii caterpillar eating Vinca catharanthus leaves, Grand Sud, Madagascar, ), 1952
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Vinca catharanthus, (L’Herbier du Muséum, Le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris)
Jeffrey Stuker
Vinca catharanthus, (L’Herbier du Muséum, Le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris), 2023
49.53 x 74.93 x 102.24cm
Kallima Inachus (Study for Recto Verso Ventral Dorsal), I
Jeffrey Stuker
Kallima Inachus (Study for Recto Verso Ventral Dorsal), I, 2024
40.6 x 50.8cm
Kallima Inachus (Study for Recto Verso Ventral Dorsal), II
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Kallima Inachus (Study for Recto Verso Ventral Dorsal), II, 2024
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