Open AccessImagine It Thick In Your Own Skin: Sculptures and a Unique Artist’s Book
Author(s) -
Heide Hatry
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
media tropes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1913-6005
DOI - 10.33137/mt.v7i2.33674
Subject(s) - sculpture , tragedy (event) , art , beauty , meaning (existential) , aesthetics , identity (music) , visual arts , german , natural (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , history , literature , psychology , archaeology , psychotherapist
In this artistic contribution, New York-based German artist Heide Hatry offers pictures of her sculpture series Imagine It Thick In Your Own Hair. According to Hatry, the project was intended to make people aware of the tragedy and motivate them to help clean up the disaster BP created in 2010 with the Deepwater Horizon spill. Hatry is best known for her body-related performances and her work employing animal flesh and organs, and cremated remains. Among her fundamental preoccupations are identity, death, the nature of aesthetic experience and the meaning of beauty, the effects of knowledge upon perception, the human exploitation of the natural world, and the social oblivion that permits atrocity to persist in our midst.