CLINT ENNS - Asleep at the Gallery

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Asleep at the Gallery

A body lies stretched out on the floor, surrounded by wilted flowers, food scraps, and debris. The white gallery space, a symbol of purity and order, transforms into an afterimage of exhaustion. An enigmatic network of lines hangs on the wall—like a silent commentary on the inner confusion of the person lying there.

Clint Enns' Asleep at the Gallery plays with expectations of art: Is the man a visitor who can no longer bear the work? An artist who is being destroyed by his own image? Or is he simply part of an installation that transforms the space into an absurd stage?

The scene seems simultaneously banal and apocalyptic, like the end of a celebration that no one planned. Here, the gallery space is not romanticized, but demystified: as a place where art fails just as people do—and precisely therein finds its true truth.