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 in the petri-dish of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious.
Amongst these hoardings, you’ll find hot takes on art with a dark sensibility,
from ages ago til now and my latest fixations and goth adjacent media.
the fool
Liyen Chong uses her hair to ‘draw’ on cotton, resulting in this intricately embroidered figure titled The Fool. Taking upward of thirty hours to complete, she stitches herself into an image of the dead with intense discipline.
angel of anatomy
In some kind of macabre burlesque act, Leonor Fini’s The Angel of Anatomy drops a mauve cloth away to reveal muscle and bone.