40 minute performance
La Margarita, Barcelona, Spain
2013

For the duration of the performance, I lay down on the floor of the space (within the context of a crowded exhibition) wearing black stilettos and underwear, without moving. My body was flanked on either side with legs of ham, and inscribed on my back were the words Sometimes you sacrifice your body, because it’s the only thing you’ve got left. The work depicts masochistic self-objectification in it’s paradoxical relationship with spiritual martyrdom, through the commodification of the body. The objectified body—an offering of meat, a ritual slaughter, is offered up in the name of spiritual transcendence. That is, transcendence from the corporeal prison of physicality which, in itself, is inexorably designed to sustain.