Sentences with phrase «by headless bodies»

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«The Headless Woman or the Belly Dance» of 1974, regarded as the first video exhibited in Turkey by the Paris based artist Nil Yalter, highlights orientalist fantasies that have evolved around the female body.

The folds of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages of a multitude of images from a broad range of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram of the ideas of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen body of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display» of a mummy in the British Museum.

The exhibition includes a print of the headless body of artist David Hammons; a wall hanging by Greek artist, Despina Isaia, which spells out the words from a song with strands of her own hair; and Marina Abramovich's video of a performance in which she washes a skeleton.