DEBRA DREXLER’S project Gauguin’s Zombie was discussed in the media studies book The Transatlantic Zombie by Sarah Juliet Lauro (Rutgers)
Excerpted from “Textual Zombies in the Visual Arts” (p178 -185)
“Drexler’s reworkings of Gauguin’s painting are a zombie project as well as a project representing the zombie: these are essentially the dead works of Gauguin made strange and given new life, but they definitively refashioned as a critique of Gauguin’s work, and its, I would say starkly uncritical chronicle of empire.”