New York-based artist Tamara Kostianovsky has created some interesting art from her own clothing to recreate the scene of hanging meat carcasses at a butcher’s shop.
Through using fabric to make life-sized sculptures of what looks like flesh, bone gristle and slabs of fat of livestock carcasses, her purpose is to connect the violent act of animal slaughter with the familiar realm of clothes.
“My intention is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context for reflecting about the vulnerability of our physical existences, brutality, poverty, consumption, and the voracious needs of the body.”
This work, titled “Actus Reus”, will be exhibited at Fondo Nacional De Las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from May 2013.
[via designboom]