{"id":5879,"date":"2019-02-06T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/current\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2019-02-20T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:57:45","slug":"jasna-jernejsek-embalmed-beauty-die-young-and-have-a-good-looking-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldofart.org\/arhiv.worldofart.org\/current\/archives\/5879","title":{"rendered":"Jasna Jernej\u0161ek: Embalmed Beauty. \u201cDie young, and have a good-looking corpse\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCCA-Ljubljana & Kulturni dom Nova Gorica \/ City Gallery
\nEncounters with Contemporary Visual Art<\/em><\/p>\n

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The series of three lectures in frame of Encounters with Contemporary Visual Art<\/em> are the outcome of collaboration between SCCA-Ljubljana<\/strong> and Kulturni dom Nova Gorica<\/strong>. In 2019 coworkers of SCCA-Ljubljana will prepare one lecture in February (Jasna Jernej\u0161ek), March (Barbara Bor\u010di\u0107) and April (Peter Cerov\u0161ek & Du\u0161an Dov\u010d).<\/p>\n

You are kindly welcome to join us on Tuesday, February 19<\/strong> at the lecture titled Embalmed Beauty<\/em> by Jasna Jernej\u0161ek<\/strong> which addresses the theme of eroticized female dead body. She will illuminate the concept of death beauties from different perspectives (art historian, psychoanalytic and social) focusing on individual examples from the history of Western Art and popular culture, from the erotic depictions of Pre-Raphaelites, surrealistic images of Dada, the Twilight Saga<\/em> to so called corps chick<\/em> in fashion and advertising imaginary.<\/p>\n

The eroticized dead body is nothing new in the iconography of the West since throughout the history artists have been depicting dead women as sexually attractive. Throughout the 18th century Eros in Thanatos represented a subject of fascination both in art and in literature. In the 19th and 20th century, they unite in the erotic appeal of the dead body, the topic addressed by many, i.e. Walter Benjamin with the sexual attraction of inorganic and Georges Bataille with a negative experience of eroticism. Also Sigmund Freud\u2019s das Unheimliche<\/em> and Julia Kristeva\u2019s abject<\/em> come into mind. Seeing death as beautiful was already considered in the Victorian era, well before the phrase \u201cDie young, and have a good-looking corpse\u201d<\/em> became popular.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Zhang Jingna za Filler Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\"\"Jasna Jernej\u0161ek<\/strong> (1982) is a freelance curator and critic. She finished Master\u2019s studies in Communication Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She takes interest in creation and transmission of meaning through (re)designing and combining images, and (non)communication they trigger. She mainly focuses on the theory and history of photography within the field of contemporary photography and new media. Since 2018 she is a co-worker of World of Art | School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing, and Studio 6 at SCCA-Ljubljana.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Matej Vidmar<\/p>\n