See also film blog for poncy celebration of nuns without clothes.
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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-83 (published 1991)
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Andreas Embiricos ( Ο Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος)- Untitled ,1930’s
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…desires contrasting, contradictory, impacted, immobilizing. The desire to become fully visible, to be seen (at last) as one is, to be honest, to be unmasked. The desire to hide, to be camouflaged. To be elsewhere. Other.
The desire to be stripped down, to be naked, to be concealed, to disappear, to be only ones skin, to mortify the skin, to petrify the body, to become fixed, to become dematerialized, a ghost, to become matter only, inorganic matter, to stop, to die.
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Susan Sontag, from Fragments of an Aesthetic of Melancholy
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Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929-2005)
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Photography / Collage work, 1950s
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