Very good condition.
Signed and numbered on the labels on the backing board of the frame.
There are two faint stains on the right side of the verso.

Marilyn Minter (1948 - ) is an American photographer whose work explores sexuality and female empowerment. Minter challenges the expectations of artwork that women artists are expected to produce; championing the sexuality of women rather than hiding it away. The ambiguity of the bodies in Minter’s photographs encapsulates the duality of natural desire and society’s sexual anxiety. During the late 1900s and early 2000s, Minter’s photography combined this eroticism with high glamour. Minter shoots directly onto film and uses no digital manipulation to alter the highly stylized imagery. This phenomenal technical ability contrasts with the constructed narratives that are photographed.
The title 《Cat's Cradle》 refers to the game where partners pass loops of strings from each other’s hands. This game can be intimate in the touching of hands and has been used in historic images of lovers. This title imbues the work with a childlike playfulness and asks the viewer to search for the partner of the game. Here the strings are transformed into pearls, elevating the game into something glamorous and adult.
Minter, who is based in New York, has exhibited internationally. Notable exhibitions include the Whitney Biennale (2006), MoMA (2010 - 11), “Riotous Baroque” at Kunsthaus Zürich and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2013), and a traveling retrospective exhibition in 2016.

Salon 94, New York