The project, which began in 2021, uses fictional visual historical materials to create a female muse who has never appeared in art history before, challenging the issue of how art portrays and neglects female subjects. The project includes a comprehensive fiction of prints and academic articles on art history, challenging the authenticity of prints as an important record carrier of art history imagery. It is still ongoing.
Fake criticism:
Lily anatomique originates from the Anatomical Atlas of the Human Body, published around the 1770s, showcasing the remarkable progress in printmaking and modern medicine influenced by the Enlightenment era. The author dissects a partially covered mysterious woman, whose fair skin revealed under the black veil is not voluptuous flesh but an accurate depiction of the back skeletal structure. The author combines the scientific anatomy with erotic female body, creating a cruel and abnormal fantasy scene. The woman’s posture is influenced by classical female nude oil paintings, in which flesh and bone simultaneously possess softness and delicacy on the outside, and sharpness and angularity on the inside. The woman is depicted as an object of art, with her attributes as a person overshadowed by her spinal pelvis, creating a powerful artistic statement. The unique and chilling aesthetics of death in this work represents a great realization of surrealism in medical imagery.
