breaking down the corpse in art
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all manner of the macabre.
d_composition is an art historical take on the body hereafter. Formed at the intersection of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious. We welcome the presence lurking in the dark, believing that by talking about ‘it’, we cultivate empathy & understanding.
still
Jenny Saville attends to the flesh in thick lashings of oil paint. She relishes in the perception of the human body, mainly painting monumental self-portraits, nudes, fleshy women who counter the male gaze. Still is one of few images to render post-mortem flesh in her oeuvre.
silueta
Part-performance, part-land-art Ana Mendieta’s Silueta series is a collection of ephemeral landscape interventions captured in photographs. She creates imprints of her ‘body’ from earth, blood, flowers, leaves, sticks, stones, fire, gunpowder, fireworks, candles and cloth.