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Continuing from the exhibition The Crocker land expedition shown at The National 2019, The Dark Brain of Piranesi is based on the essay by Marguerite Yourcenar about Piranesi’s etchings of imaginary prisons called Le Carceri d’Invenzione. Psychological aspects of the hunting and collecting process are examined.

The installation consists of a campaign sled, a series of architectural and figurative propositions in oil on glass and a wall treatment; which sites the objects in a disconcertingly urban environment, interrupting the sentimentality of the expedition concept.

Henri Papin (the …