"Sam Stewart’s 'Marty Cabinet' (2025) takes the shape of a striped shirt tucked into a pair of wooden trousers—a cabinet masquerading as a hollow athlete. Evoking the sensual flatness of Domenico Gnoli’s sartorial portraits, it’s also an homage to ping-pong champion Marty Reisman (who’s having quite a cultural moment, with Josh Safdie’s biopic starring Timothée Chalamet arriving later this year), but more than that, it’s a perfect metaphor for contemporary sports culture: all the gear, all the style, but the body has vanished into abstraction."

-Excerpt from, 'The Proprietary Gymnasium,' by Jessica Joffe