It is not because you never see a head that it
looks like it has been cut off. It is, rather, that I no longer think
the presence of a head is necessary. The figure as a whole is a mental
state. The presence or absence of a head is irrelevant. Berlinde de
Bruyckere
Marthe (2008) shows a body in duality, disgusting but still half-human, a
hand found in its twig-like limbs reminiscent of Ovidian-style
transformation; it too, despite its lifelike physicality, is sexless,
headless, inert, a re-imagined object. “It is not because you never see a
head that it looks like it has been cut off. It is, rather, that I no
longer think the presence of a head is necessary. The figure as a whole
is a mental state. The presence or absence of a head is irrelevant.”
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