The Meat Gallery -- A Garden of Surrealist Sculpture (assembled surrealist objects)

The images of surrealist sculpture you are about to see were created with the help of thinly sliced beef (many of them, rather), apparently the true flesh of the gODDs, another manifestation of surrealism. In fact, these images could be considered nothing other than meat sculpture, a proteinaceous genre that would give enhanced meaning to the descriptive term "plastic art."

Often in vernacular or "crude" language (in certain cultures), people talk of other people as "pieces of meat" in order to express sexual ideas. Despite the often negative connotations of this metaphor (perhaps due to various degrees of sexual repression supported by the prevailing capitalist ideology), the analogy made of meat to carnality and vice versa is undeniably significant and salient.

It was Georges Bataille who elucidated the underlying connection between eroticism and mortality, between sex and death, and this idea is developed in depth in The Tears of Eros, (City Lights Books edition, 1989). In the meat gallery you are about to visit, this tempting affinity is demonstrated poetically, with an exploration of the confrontation between carnage and carnality.

The following images of meat art take this analogous, poetic connection between flesh for gastronomic consumption and flesh intended for sexual consumption, and give new life to everyday objects, eroticizing new domains of reality normally sterilized by the psychologically (and physically) repressive clutches of our imperialist regime(s). Furthermore, these images are truly surrealist in that they liberate the latent sexuality of everyday human existence in such a way that the uncoscious mind is able to simultaneously work in tandem with the conscious domain. The result of this sublime cooperation is yet another variety of surrealist poetry (meat art, no less), another manifestation of surrealism.

Therefore it could be said that one of surrealism's goals is the erotization of all life, including the inanimate world of utilitarian materials, through a poetic rebellion against our current post-industrial sexual repression. The meat sculpture on this page manifests this ambition.

Apparently, children aren't the only ones who can play with their food.

Bon ape tit!