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Saintly Cadavers

by Nora Geist :: You need to be a member to contact artists →Join :: Portfolio

"Stations of a blessed sacrilege" (1995). Georges Bataille’s erotic novella “The Story of the Eye” was the inspiration for my satirical photographic depiction of an unholy communion. I captured the original content in black & white film then hand-coloured a selection of the photos to form a provocative and ribald narrative. The models’ skin resembles polished wax, similar to the 'incorruptible' corpses of saints displayed in reliquaries of various churches, cathedrals and basilicas. The occurrence of incorruptibility—in which the bodies of some saints are thought to have been miraculously preserved—is sometimes referred to as "saintly cadavers". I used a Konica AUTOREFLEX T4 35mm Film SLR Manual camera throughout the series.

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Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers
Saintly Cadavers

 

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