Auto Immune Response #5
Artist
Will Wilson
(American, Navajo, born 1969)
Date2005 (printed later)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 20 1/4 x 60 5/8 in. (51.4 x 154 cm)
Support: 24 x 67 1/4 in. (61 x 170.8 cm)
Frame: 28 3/16 × 71 1/8 × 2 3/16 in. (71.6 × 180.7 × 5.6 cm)
Support: 24 x 67 1/4 in. (61 x 170.8 cm)
Frame: 28 3/16 × 71 1/8 × 2 3/16 in. (71.6 × 180.7 × 5.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Will Wilson, 2013
Object number2013.44
DescriptionFlat desert landscape with blue sky. Two figures dressed in white, collared shirt look out of the composition. Both are wearing gas masks and have dried blood on their faces. They appear to be connected by a twisted length of air hose.eMuseum Notes
In his Auto Immune Response series, Will Wilson enacts the tale of a Navajo man navigating a toxic, post-apocalyptic landscape. Here he appears in duplicate, echoing the Navajo creation story about twins who rid the world of human-eating monsters. The figures appear in the desert, looking for water, and they clay on their foreheads is perhaps a cleansing ritual. The gas masks they wear, with their menacing tubes, remind us of the consequences of not caring for our home.
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