Jamil Hellu (American, born in Brazil, 1976), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (a.k.a. Faluda Islam) grew up in Pakistan. In Arabic poetry, a deer often symbolizes an effeminate young man. In Brazil, the word deer ('veado') is commonly used as a slang to insult gay men, 2017, from the series Hues. Digital pigment print. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Gift of Pamela and David Hornik, 2023.55
Full Figure presents a selection of prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures that depict the human body from head to toe. Artists including Diane Arbus, Kerry James Marshall, and Cang Xin invite us to consider their subjects’ physical presence in the world, exposing the ways they have been rendered invisible and claiming a space of their own in the history of art. The installation features many recent acquisitions on view for the first time, recent acquisitions, and familiar visitor favorites from the Cantor collection like Duane Hanson’s Slab Man (1974–1975) and Hope Gangloff’s Lorem Ipsum (2017).
