Thawing Embryo I

This work is part of a series composed of sculptures, videos, paintings, installations, performance and augmented reality. The series Sacrifice is based on a character I created using 3D technologies. Rendering human skin as an extreme expression -an explosion of colours and an exaggeration of shapes – it is a combination of illusion and reality, a violent dance of the mind, and an ironic game with multiple layers of perception. The character is informed by the classical images of bodies in extreme, taking cues from Rembrandt’s “Carcass of Beef” and Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Crucifixion” and “Figure with Meat”. The body is not only violent, it is also erotic: “In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence,” said Georges Bataille. This artwork is inspired by images of war, the nature of truth in photography and media, and the ecstasy of the body in movement.

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