Kiki Smith American, born Germany, 1954
Blood Pool
1992
Kiki Smith's 'Pool of Blood' (1992) is one of the American artist's explorations of the body's fragility: a modest pool of beeswax, gauze, and red pigment spreads across the floor, conjuring a single embodied trauma. Smith's use of humble, skin-like materials places the work at the heart of 1990s feminist body-art. Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago