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.
little electric chairs
From 1964, Andy Warhol would uplift troubling images from newspapers: fatal car crashes, an upturned ambulance. He claimed the more you looked at an image, the less gruesome it is. His series on the electric chair exhibits this depersonalising effect but holds impending terror in its repetition.