"For Anahuacalli in Mexico City I wanted to make the sculptures in Mexico. Knowing that Nuds will tap into the forces that surround them, the enchantment of the place, and its spirits. I chose Oaxaca for the making process. Or perhaps it chose me.

 

Even the most ordinary materials are subject to variation country to country. One can either get het up about that or go with the flow. The flow is where the life is, and the surprising things. On the street, in bars, in the marketplace. Tracking down stuff is a good way to get to know a town. The one thing leads to another.

 

Everything you need is around you somewhere, always. Of course you have to make a start. Start by not thinking it’s elsewhere." Sarah Lucas

 

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TITTIPUSSIDAD documents Sarah Lucas's odyssey to Mexico throughout 2012 on the occasion of her exhibition at the Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. This exhibition marked a significant development in Lucas's art, as her NUD sculptures - stuffed tights twisted into abstract contortions - developed into playful and perverse anthropomorphic characters.

 

Interweaving colour and black-and-white photographs, Julian Simmons has produced an unparalleled study into the way in which Lucas's life informs and shapes her art. This publication as such, is an encyclopaedic chronicle combining the genres of exhibition catalogue, diary, photographic essay and epic poem. From the prologue, which offers an account into the Dada-esque wordplay of Lucas's titles, to the ecclesiastical-style images of the installation at the Museo Diego Rivera, TITTIPUSSIDAD provides an emotive account of a pivotal moment in the artist's life and career.