Andres Serrano — Piss Christ (Immersions), 1987 — Exhibition Postcard, Portraits d’Amérique, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris–Brussels

Artist postcard
Offset print on card stock
Published by Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris / Brussels
Exhibition: Portraits d’Amérique, Musée Maillol, Paris
Exhibition dates: 27 April – 20 October 2024
Postcard published: 2024
Condition: light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and storage

Official exhibition postcard reproducing Piss Christ (Immersions) (1987) by Andres Serrano, issued in connection with Portraits d’Amérique at the Musée Maillol, Paris, through Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris / Brussels.

The image belongs to Serrano’s Immersions series, a body of works in which religious and symbolic objects were submerged within bodily and everyday materials. The reproduced work presents a small crucifix suspended within an illuminated field of amber-red colour. Detached from its original scale and exhibition setting, the image shifts from photographic work to portable support and circulation object.

Over time Piss Christ became one of the most publicly debated artworks of the late twentieth century, moving repeatedly through disputes concerning religion, public funding, censorship, and image circulation. This postcard retains that larger history in condensed form: exhibition material functioning simultaneously as document, reproduction, and residual carrier of a widely circulated image.

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