[no title] 1994

Curator: Right, let's dive into this untitled work by Thomas Schütte, created without a specific date. It's part of the Tate collection, a photograph measuring 640 by 950 millimeters. Editor: My first thought? Haunted. These figures, are they emerging from the shadows, or are they sinking back into them? The texture is almost unsettling. Curator: Schütte often explores the grotesque, I think. He's interested in how power and vulnerability are expressed through the human form, especially within institutional contexts. Editor: The robes add an interesting layer. Are they bathrobes? Medical gowns? It completely shifts the narrative. If they're bathrobes, it becomes absurd, almost funny, which seems…unexpected, given the faces. Curator: And that tension, that push and pull, is so key to understanding Schütte's work. The unsettling made familiar, the familiar made monstrous. Editor: Absolutely. It really makes you consider the masks we wear, literally and figuratively, and who gets to decide what's monstrous anyway. A grim exploration.