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.
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.