CLINT ENNS - Specters of 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 – Specters of the Gallery

A body, naked, smeared, covered in foam, lies grotesquely twisted on the floor. Next to it is a man in a white shirt, rigid, perplexed, perhaps a curator, perhaps a detective. On the wall hangs a picture of a veiled figure—like a malevolent echo of what's happening in the room.

Here, Enns stages a ghostly in-between state: performance, crime, purification, exorcism? Anything remains possible. "Spectres of the Gallery" points to the ghosts that haunt every exhibition space—the repressed bodies, the surplus meanings, the never-fully contained violence of art itself. The foam, flowing across the floor like ectoplasm, appears simultaneously ridiculous and uncanny, a cheap stage effect and a serious symbol. The image asks: Who is being dissolved here—the artist, the work, or the audience?