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Alina Szapocznikow - Illuminated Lips, 1966-68
“Born in Poland in 1926, she was interned in concentration camps while a teenager, a time she refused to discuss in later life. However, her casts of body parts and fragmented limbs speak to a knowledge of horror where bodies are objects.
Szapocznikow cast her body and used these fragments to transform art into everyday objects. Lips and breasts become lamps, fragments of her face a vase for flowers, her head an ashtray. Her fearless originality questions the consumerism of femininity and the female experience and speaks to a dark humour which underlies her work.”
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