Archival pigment print.
Signed and numbered on verso.
'Sweetheart' by Marilyn Minter is an archival print measuring 45.7 × 61 cm, produced in 2024. An extreme close-up frames a wide-open mouth with vivid pink lips and a protruding tongue; suspended at the centre is a clear, heart-shaped water droplet, surrounded by scattered silver beads that float mid-air against teeth and wet skin. The composition sits squarely within Minter's long-running photographic practice of hyper-real body close-ups, where glamour and visceral physicality are held in deliberate tension. Working since the late 1980s at the intersection of commercial aesthetics and fine art, Minter consistently recruits the visual language of beauty advertising — high gloss, jewel-like detail, saturated colour — only to push it past comfort into something more ambiguous and corporeal.
Marilyn Minter (USA, 1948) is a celebrated contemporary artist whose work explores beauty, glamour, and desire. Known for her provocative photorealistic paintings, videos, and photographs, she often blurs the line between attraction and discomfort. Minter’s vibrant, sensual imagery critiques societal norms around beauty and consumerism, making her a key voice in feminist art.
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Archival pigment print.
Signed and numbered on verso.
'Sweetheart' by Marilyn Minter is an archival print measuring 45.7 × 61 cm, produced in 2024. An extreme close-up frames a wide-open mouth with vivid pink lips and a protruding tongue; suspended at the centre is a clear, heart-shaped water droplet, surrounded by scattered silver beads that float mid-air against teeth and wet skin. The composition sits squarely within Minter's long-running photographic practice of hyper-real body close-ups, where glamour and visceral physicality are held in deliberate tension. Working since the late 1980s at the intersection of commercial aesthetics and fine art, Minter consistently recruits the visual language of beauty advertising — high gloss, jewel-like detail, saturated colour — only to push it past comfort into something more ambiguous and corporeal.
Marilyn Minter (USA, 1948) is a celebrated contemporary artist whose work explores beauty, glamour, and desire. Known for her provocative photorealistic paintings, videos, and photographs, she often blurs the line between attraction and discomfort. Minter’s vibrant, sensual imagery critiques societal norms around beauty and consumerism, making her a key voice in feminist art.
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Marilyn Minter
Sweetheart, 2024
45.7 x 61 cm
