The spiky-crowned figure here occupies a lineage running directly from Basquiat's crown-bearing heads - the jagged coronet of teeth above the face reads less as hair than as sovereignty, complicated immediately by the abject open mouth and the proffered red packet. Dr Harold J Shamoon situates desire as spectacle: the word CRISPS loops back on itself across both bag and speech, collapsing advertisement and hunger into a single, rather mournful circuit.
The spiky-crowned figure here occupies a lineage running directly from Basquiat's crown-bearing heads - the jagged coronet of teeth above the face reads less as hair than as sovereignty, complicated immediately by the abject open mouth and the proffered red packet. Dr Harold J Shamoon situates desire as spectacle: the word CRISPS loops back on itself across both bag and speech, collapsing advertisement and hunger into a single, rather mournful circuit.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery