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Jana Sterbak Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic |
SL: The meat dress [Jana Sterbak, Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987)] is so ugly. It's a pretty dress but it's meat, so you want to look at it but you don't want to look at it at the same time because it's raw flesh and you know that, but when you're looking at it, in a way, you kind of forget that.
CK: And it becomes something different. It's like when we were working on the dress, putting it together, like I was telling you before. We were taking 70 pounds of this raw meat and all day we were pounding it and salting it and soon enough, what happens is it stops becoming like meat and it starts becoming like any other material, like a piece of wood or a piece of cloth or something else, and it really changes. And I think that's what happens when you look at the dress. It's like 70 pounds of raw meat, but you start to look at it and it's a dress, you know?"