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Fleshy Art
by Jennifer Dalton


*Two Boxes and Flower* by Margaret Clark

Jeanne Dunning's new photographs and videos feature an unusual prop. Called "the blob," this liquid-filled amorphous sac plays an important role in the artist's new work.


*Chair and Bathing Suit* by Margaret Clark

In several images, the blob is symbiotically attached to a young woman, symbolizing our society's discomfort with flesh, and especially our dread of fat.


*My Body* by Roxa Smith

In Dunning's video Getting Dressed, a young woman's efforts to dress the blob in a skirt and blouse are continually frustrated as it slips and slithers out of the clothing she tries to button around it. In another video, Extra Skin (Adding), a woman systematically puts on dozens of layers of flesh-colored clothing, adding considerably to her girth and again questioning our culture's repulsion towards ample flesh.


*Large Body* by Biagio Civale

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