I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

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Kirk Kara. Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst Goslar Germany 2007.

Matthew Barney (born March 25 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture photography drawing and film. His early works are sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the CREMASTER Cycle a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.