Star Steak
Éric Baudart’s photograph Star Steak humorously and deliberately presents a steak with gigantic proportions. The artist has scanned and enlarged this piece of minced meat to reveal its every detail. The photograph draws our attention to this popular and widely consumed foodstuff and thus invites us to consider what surrounds us but to which we pay no attention. The unusual size of the steak and what it reveals gives it an artistic dimension. The focus on its texture and the blurred of its frozen remnants give the subject a painterly quality. This piece of meat could be a contemporary appropriation of the still life, a memento mori (“Remember that you are going to die”) reminding us crudely of our own mortality and the fragility of the flesh.
Text written by Camille Philippon as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 01 Oct to 29 Oct 2005