Painless cuts: Gina Pane and the iconography of martyrized saints
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https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-714X.45.287Keywords:
Gina Pane, martyrium, photography, pain, bodyAbstract
This article is about the image of pain in Pane’s photographs of her Actions. These cliches are less spontaneous than one might suppose when considering some performance registers, as a matter of fact, they contain a clear artistical project. Exposing such a painless body, despite the wounds she had provoked on her skin, the artist establishes a connection with the Christian iconography of the martyrdom. This superhuman capacity of transcending pain’s corporal urgency establishes the connection between two singulars bodies: the saint’s and the performer’s.
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