Kiss

While the name of the piece perhaps refers to the American rock group Kiss, one of whose members appears in a wheelbarrow pushed by two men with deformed faces, it is difficult to find a logical meaning to the rest of the painting amidst the deathly obsession. A third man, with his penis exposed and armed with a shovel, buries a dismembered body, while three birds defecate overhead. The scene is enjoyed by a character from a comic strip.

By showing a violent scene, referencing a family history with no explicit details, Philippe Perrot deliberately loses the viewer in its interpretation. A bet won for the artist according to whom "a successful painting is an image where you don’t know what is happening, [where] the viewer is free to interpret according to their own family stories, since no mark on the bodies helps to distinguish who is good and who is bad."

This work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in 2011 at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.