{"id":533,"date":"2019-08-10T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitten.yishay.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:36:24","slug":"eat-me-damien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yishay.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/eat-me-damien\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Me Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Influenced as well by Ginger Rogers and Fried Astaire, what he did, she did but backwards and in heels.<\/p>

“Eat Me Damien” is a piece that directs a cutting edge of sarcasm toward another famous piece. In 1991 Damien Hirst<\/a> put a dead shark in a fish tank filled with formaldehyde and called the work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.”<\/a> The work was sold in 2004 to a collector for a reported 8 to 12 million dollars. It is rumored that the shark is often replaced when the work is shown in different venues.<\/p>

There is an innate machismo embedded in various interpretations of this work, such as that the Shark represents a predatory tactic employed in business, or that the shark represents a similar tactic often unleashed in the art world. That male centric and predatory point of view is replaced by a highly personal, humorous and indeed irreplaceable feature in “Eat Me Damien”. I challenge the embodiment of power and playing with the meaning of consumption – who is consuming whom?<\/p>

I placed a formaldehyde protected piece of my own body, her testicles, detached during a gender clarification surgery, into a fish tank, by which she also speaks of the objectness of sex as well as embodiment of gender.<\/p>

\u201cThis is part of my body. But I like them best out there. \u201c \u2028installation shot from ‘have we met before?’<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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