Start price: € 2,200

Estimate: € 2,800–4,500

Start price: RMB 17,000

Estimate: RMB 22,000–34,000

Size: 45 x 62.4 cm cm

Archival pigment print, printed on double-weight matte paper c. 48 x 68 cm, in excellent condition. Signed by the photographer on the reverse.

"The modern spirit is vivisected. Vivisection itself is the most modern process one can conceive. The ancient spirit accepted phenomena with bad grace. The ancient method investigated law with the lantern of justice, morality with the lantern of revelation, art with the lantern of tradition. But all these lanterns have magical properties: they transform and disfigure. The modern method examines its territory by the light of day.", so James Joyce, a former medical student, in his novel "Stephen Hero", offering a portrait of the artist as vivisector, a carnal voyeur whose victim suffers his gaze as she does the surgeon’s scalpel. Photo-artist Francesca Catastini explores vivisection as an aesthetic performance. Acting as both the victim and the artist, she dissects the very notion of scopophilia, blindness and the human quest for knowledge.

馆藏级颜料印刷，印在双重重量的哑光纸上，约48 x 68厘米，状况极佳。摄影师在背面签名。 詹姆斯·乔伊斯，这位曾经的医学生，在他的小说《斯蒂芬英雄》中写道：“现代精神被活体解剖。活体解剖本身是人们能想到的最现代的过程。古老的精神不情愿地接受现象。古老的方法用正义的灯笼调查法律，用启示的灯笼调查道德，用传统的灯笼调查艺术。但所有这些灯笼都有魔法属性：它们会变形和扭曲。现代的方法在白天的光线下检查其领地。”他描绘了艺术家作为活体解剖者的形象，一个肉体的偷窥者，他的受害者在他的目光下如同在外科医生的手术刀下受苦。摄影艺术家弗朗西斯卡·卡塔斯蒂尼将活体解剖作为一种美学表演进行探索。她既是受害者也是艺术家，解剖了窥视癖、盲目和人类对知识的追求这一概念。