Poetry. PLAYING BODIES is a work in poetry and paintings by Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw. The series of fifty-two paintings by Shaw and fifty-two poems by Perelman reflect an intensely united collaboration. In describing the project, Shaw writes: "Exploring the space where terror and comfort, pleasure and pain are overlaid, I have done a series of 52 paintings.The 52 paintings as a whole do not form any narrative progression; instead, each painting poses a variation of some basic questions: is this play or struggle, or both at once, who is carrying whom, who is in control?" Bob Perelman writes: "I tried to do justice to the exhilarating and terrifying primal meanings that Isee the paintings display with such passionate wit." Among the many titles by Bob Perelman carried by SPD in the last two decades, CAPTIVE AUDIENCE and THE FUTURE OF MEMORY are still available.
