Body Project - 5 Artists.

Ann Hamilton:

Ann made a piece called "toothpick suit" she used thousands of toothpicks and layered them like a porcupine style along a suit of clothes that she wore. This piece represents and shows the human body because it reveals her vision of the constructed body and how it may be understood in space and time, but also how it can be read differently in different moments of time. It was presented in photographs -  but was served to three directions of her art making of: objects, installations and performances.

Ana Mendieta: 

Ana's piece called "Facial Hair Transplant" -  she implies a fake beard to her face and she used to her friends facial hair. Her scientific objectivity is shown challenged in her other works like this by her own physical shapes and form of her body/face. The photograph is a side view and her face is also shown serious. She is not looking at the camera, but looking down. It also seems as though she tried to make herself like a man because the way that she slicked her hair back.




Jana Sterbak:

Jana's piece called "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic" was made to describe the 17th century dutch still life of rotting meat, gutting candles and skulls. They were intended to fleet the nature of life, death and spiritual life.  She points the viewer towards ideas that animate her work. She shows the alienation of how humans feel from their own flesh, aging, and mortality. As you look at the dress -  the aging process takes places before your eyes. It addresses the issue with fashion, women and the body. 60 pounds of raw flank steak was stitched together.



Nick Cave: 

His "Sound-suit" pieces are usually in shapes of creatures and undefined bodies hovering a human and abstract form. He as diverse groups of the sounds suits made out of found fabrics,buttons, sequins and beads and they are all sewn together to make patterns and designs. He first makes a metal armature with a objects that range from ceramic birds, flowers, ornaments, to beads. The top figures serve as headdresses that provide a visual and textural contrast of the soft bodysuit.