CLINT ENNS - Medusa Complex

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 – Medusa Complex

An ancient myth, reimagined: The monstrous Medusa, half statue, half lifelike, holds a naked man in a headlock like a trophy. An elderly man in a suit kneels beside her—an art historian, collector, or critic? He appears small, almost submissive, as if he were trying to analyze or even curate the nude.

Here, Enns intertwines the heroic with the banal. Where once the gods decided life and death, today the institution acts as an observer. The violence of myth is museumized, but not tamed – Medusa's snakes continue to writhe, the physicality of the victim remains unmistakable.

The image demonstrates that myths do not become obsolete. They return, disguised as allegories of our present: power and powerlessness, art and violence, the cold beauty of representation and the naked fragility of the body.