CLINT ENNS - Losing Your Head

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 – Losing Your Head

A child stands with his gaze lowered, his hands pressed to his face, while a gigantic, reflective balloon floats above him. Inside, a head floats—strangely remote, almost detached from the body. The yellow hat slips like an ironic accessory between seriousness and absurdity.

"Losing Your Head" is a picture about loss of control and, at the same time, about fantasy: the disintegration of the unity of body and mind, depicted as a child's game. But the game tilts – the reflections in the balloon suggest spaces that don't exist, a house in the mind, a floating world.

Enns' work here oscillates between magic and melancholy: there's no laughter, but instead, the fragile line on which we hold reality together is revealed. A dream, light as a balloon—and just as close to bursting.