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Every One (#2)

Sophie Ristelhueber (French, born in 1949)
1994

Medium/Technique Photograph, chromogenic print (black and white image) mounted on laminated fiberboard
Dimensions 180 x 270 cm (70 7/8 x 106 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Fund
Accession Number2002.109
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPhotographs
In response to the devastating violence in former Yugoslavia, Ristelhueber set out to create a work that would address the horror of brutality among neighbors turned enemies. With great clarity she made close-up photographs of the recently stitched bodies of patients of Paris hospitals. Every One is the artist's only figurative work to date, but on this scale, the human form also appears like a ruptured and violated landscape. To show her solidarity with the city under siege, Ristelhueber traveled to Sarajevo in 1994, exhibiting one of the images from the recently completed Every One at an art center there.

ProvenanceThe artist; to MFA, Boston, 2002
CopyrightReproduced with permission.