Burn this – your face, your body

Isn’t there suddenly a lot of this going on?

Douglas Gordon:

Tomoo Gokita from Ambach & Rice through Saturday.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty at Ambach & Rice through Saturday.

Gordon’s is the most corrosive. Gokita, using models from Japan’s Elvis cult dancers, gives their undoing a jaunty spin. And Rafferty’s is a never-say-die image. Her model has taken a big hit, but she’s still standing and ready to give back.

Not so new, after all, the anguish, passion and death of the flesh.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing soul transpires

At every pore with instant fires,

Now let us sport us while we may;

And now, like am’rous birds of prey,

Rather at once our time devour,

Than languish in his slow-chapp’d power.

Let us roll all our strength, and all

Our sweetness, up into one ball;

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Thorough the iron gates of life.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvel