While abstraction pursues its open ends, the body has learned to cry. It is in distress. The figure now tells a tale of alienation, pain, desire and decay. The mythic is now a personal matter. The body propels a narrative of the inner life: not one but many, not whole but broken.

Pia Stadtbäumer Bauch und Beine 1996 (Belly and Legs) beeswax

Marina Abramovic Power Object 1995 wax, bandage and blood 24 x 10 x 10

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