The Undead: a new concept of beauty?
Plenty of people would argue that the vast majority of high-fashion models are walking skeletons, so Fumie Sasabuchi's artwork transforming models into literal skeletons seems uncomfortably unnerving and yes... a little apt.
Fumie Sasabuchi adds pen, pencil and ink drawings of exposed bones, muscles, sinews and organs to magazine fashion images, literally changing traditional symbols of beauty
into the living dead. The comparison of death and Chanel makes for an interesting one!
This last image is my favourite. There's something really powerful in the idea of the sheer bones being an item of beauty - or in the case of these, death being the ultimate aphrodisiac. It's definitely a concept that deals with lots of taboo ideas. I don't want to put words in the artists mouth, but these pictures remind me of anorexia and its fetishisation. Size zero, anyone?
It reminds me of anorexia and the fetish aspect yes, but seems more like a statement against it. They are really interesting pictures either way - composed very well.
Posted by: Amber | 15 January 2009 at 03:02
Amber: Interesting point. I wouldn't want to say for sure that the artist is saying anything pro or anti anorexia, but it's interesting that the pieces can be viewed either way!
Posted by: Amy | 15 January 2009 at 18:14
wow. it's creepy, but still draws you in.
Posted by: xs | 17 January 2009 at 13:04
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Posted by: Negocio Rentable | 04 February 2010 at 21:18
That images are very interesting, I really like all of them.
Posted by: lots in Costa Rica | 05 March 2010 at 22:18