The Sexualised Chimera

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 4

How the body is transmogrified, mutated, fused, collaged

(i) The Cursing Seed

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

(ii) The Reforming Vessel

10. 11. 12.

13. 14.

(iii) The Mutating Offspring

15. 16. 17.

18. 19.

20.

1. Arnold Böcklin’s Medusa (1878)
2. Edward Burne-Jones’ The Baleful Head (1884-85)
3. Jean Delville’s The Idol Of Perversity (1891)
4. Fernand Khnopff’s The Blood Of The Medusa (1898)
5. Gustav Klimt’s Judith (1901)
6. Franz Stuck’s The Sin (1895)
7. Franz Stuck’s The Sphinx (1895)
8. Boleslas Biegas’ The Vampire (1916)
9. Franz Stuck’s Faun And Nix (1918)

10.Balthus’ Alice (1933)
11. Rene Magritte’s Collective Invention (1934)
12. Rene Magritte’s The Rape (1934)
13. Andre Masson’s Mannequin With Bird Cage (1938)
14. Victor Brauner’s Wolf Table (1947)

15. Toyen’s Paravent (1966)
16. Ed Roth’s Wild Child (1964)
17. H. R. Giger’s Biomechanoid I (1974)
18. Hajime Sorayama’s Sexy Robot #22 (1983)
19. Jake & Dinos Chapman’s Zygotic Acceleration Biogenetic De-sublimated Libidinal Model (x 1000) (1995)
20. Miwa Yanagi’s Windswept Woman 4 (2009)