Art and the Body

Renee Cox
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Kara Walker
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Jenny Saville
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Zhang Huan
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1. Is our attraction to the grotesque partly because of our repulsion?

2. Are artists our modern day 'tricksters,' confronting our communities with what they may not want to think or see?

3. I question whether we find things that enter or exit the body grotesque because they somehow invade our concrete sense of self. Maybe they also remind us of infirmity, old age and death.

4. When does the grotesque become not grotesque? When we identify with it?

5. In the same way we consider what comes and goes in and out of our orifices as grotesque because it reminds us of our transience or death, do we find the sexual grotesque in general?