A Meaty Outfit
Brooklyn-based arist Pinar Yolacan specializes in taking pictures of women dressed in meat. For her newest photoshoot, she dressed women up in cow placentas. Style.com interviewed her, specifically about a series of pictures where "he women are Afro-Brazilian, dressed in the style of the Portuguese colonizers, and the organ in question is the placenta of cows":
I make the clothes the morning of the shoot, so the meat doesn't rot. In Bahia, I froze it beforehand, so it wouldn't get smelly, because it's really hot. It's quite domestic, really—I have to buy meat, clean up, sew. For this series, I got the fabrics in local markets, and the meat, too. I try to accentuate each woman's skin tone and expression with the clothes; I take Polaroids of them when I first meet them, then I work from those. [...] Some of the women in this series practice candomblé, a kind of voodoo. So for them, wearing meat wasn't degrading, it was flattering; they thought it had something to do with the gods. The clothes are quite constricting, because they're heavy—especially since the meat is frozen. It forces them to sit a certain way, which isn't necessarily very comfortable. For me, the clothes are like a second skin they need to get used to. Which is what most Western fashion is, historically.
Those damn crazy artists.
Live Flesh [style.com]
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