Cremaster 2
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A densely symbolic, avant-garde Western that uses biological abstraction and surreal imagery to explore themes of division, resistance, and systemic equilibrium.
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.
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