Mutated Bodies
About
“The body is comparable to a sentence that invites us to disarticulate it, so that, through a series of endless anagrams, its true contents may be recomposed.” —Hans Bellmer
Applied to both contemporary and historical works that depict contorted, dismembered, or grossly exaggerated human or non-human forms, limbs, and other body parts. Some of the most iconic examples include the works of Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, Bellmer, and the YBA duo Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Related Categories
Contemporary Grotesque, Grotesque, Interlaced Bodies, Unsettling, Mysticism, Shamanism, and the Occult, Hybrids and Imaginary Creatures, Trauma and Struggle, Delicate Materials, Psychoanalysis, Deities and Holy Figures
