© Carolee Schneeman/Bildupphovsrätt 2025
Eye Body #5
Artist
Carolee Schneemann
(USA, 1939 - 2019)
Alternate Title
- Ögonkropp nr 5
Date1963/2004
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsBildmått: 52,1 × 45,5 cm
Pappersmått: 61 × 50,8 cm
Yttermått: 63,1 × 52,9 × 2,6 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2007 (The Second Museum of Our Wishes)
Countries
On view
StockholmObject NumberMOM/2007/27
CollectionsThe Second Museum of Our Wishes
About the artwork
A woman lies smeared with paint and fat, surrounded by rubble. Snakes coil over her chest and stomach. As in many Surrealist works, the female body here appears to constitute a playground for the irrational: women could be portrayed as both sexually desirable and threatening, even repulsive. But something changes when the artist Carolee Schneemann, a pioneer in feminist art and performance, takes control of the work and uses her own body as artistic material. She becomes a subject rather than an object in a male artist’s embodied imagination. Schneemann had a great interest in different religions, cultures, rites and symbols. The snake is a mythological creature that has come to symbolise a wide range of things, from death and evil to freedom and fertility.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Etikett på baksidan från galleri PPOW, New York: Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body #5 1963/2004, silver print, 19x23, edition 3/8, Schneemann-E115 Selected exhibition history Explosion (den 2 juni 2012 - den 9 september 2012) Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]Explosion! Måleri som handling / Painting as Action : [Moderna Museet 2/6-9/9 2012]
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Etikett på baksidan från galleri PPOW, New York: Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body #5 1963/2004, silver print, 19x23, edition 3/8, Schneemann-E115 Selected exhibition history Explosion (den 2 juni 2012 - den 9 september 2012) Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]Explosion! Måleri som handling / Painting as Action : [Moderna Museet 2/6-9/9 2012]