While a growing part of the population is banishing meat from their diets and becoming vegetarians, there is a growing fascination for raw meat and what we can do with it. We make clothes, art and even photography out of it.
It’s disgusting. It’s fascinating. It’s Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov. He has produced some very controversial art and I’m not too sure if I like it, but I am sure that it is remarkable. One part of me screams to see the disturbingly interesting images, although looking at them gives me some serious chills up my spine.
Tskykalov isn’t afraid to push the boundaries and use unique substances like meat, to create provoking shots. In his Meat series he drapes nude figures in meat, shaped like weapons of war and creates an aggressive, barbaric atmosphere.
Tsykalov says the art demonstrates the simplicity and brutality of the gun. He turns the most heartless object in the world, human killing machines, into something living, He brings guns to life with dead flesh. The dead meat gun is held by a man, who is seen as living flesh. But for how long? The living flesh starts to die while the dead flesh comes alive. It seems like the perfect contradiction.
The shots of flesh and blood light up a spark of violence, eroticism and fear that directly hits the brain. Each photographed subject makes direct contact and catches the mind and its eye.
I do feel sorry for the models in the shoot. I don’t even want to imagine the feeling of sitting in a installation made out of chunks death red meat like the photo above. How long do you have to shower to get the smell of death flesh off you?
Source: Galerie rabouan
