Artist found: Yobunoshi Araki

Going with the encouragement to pursue photomontage as well as illustration, I sought out the work of Yobunoshi Araki, to find pictures of the disturbing and abject, a term described by Julia Kristeva as “the human reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object or between self and other. The primary example for what causes such a reaction is the corpse (which traumatically reminds us of our own materiality); however, other items can elicit the same reaction: the open wound, shit, sewage, even the skin that forms on the surface of warm milk.” I found Araki’s work to be an extension of this. 

Search results for Araki's Erotos
Search results for Araki’s Erotos

The format has also inspired me towards a zine or publication, the red amplifies the effect the seemingly graphic and disturbing images have on the viewer, though seen without a context and with a mind devoid of suggestion, the images may look mundane, even. A common theme is hair, orifices and organic clusters of matter, that might spur on tryphophobia (fear of holes) which i might employ in my work. This is also seen in Alessandro Bavari’s work.

Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Christ, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Hypervanitas, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Hypervanitas, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Snuff show, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Snuff show, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari The taser's macrorgasmic dominium sense (Dominio macrorgasmico da taser), 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari The taser's macrorgasmic dominium sense (Dominio macrorgasmico da taser), 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Omissis, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Omissis, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Lot progeny: portrait of a girl on pillory (La progenie di lot: ritratto di ragazza in gogna), 2000. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Lot progeny: portrait of a girl on pillory (La progenie di lot: ritratto di ragazza in gogna), 2000. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Visions of lot: the door of minos (Le visioni di lot: la porta di minosse), 2011. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Visions of lot: the door of minos (Le visioni di lot: la porta di minosse), 2011. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Cornucopia, 2013. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Cornucopia, 2013. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Oracle predicts chaos through fractal shapes (Un oracolo predice il caos esibendo alcuni frattali), 2009. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Oracle predicts chaos through fractal shapes (Un oracolo predice il caos esibendo alcuni frattali), 2009. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Two sodomites dabble in emulating one vegetable's features (Due sodomiti si dilettano emulando le sembianze di un vegetale), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Two sodomites dabble in emulating one vegetable's features (Due sodomiti si dilettano emulando le sembianze di un vegetale), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari As idlers sink into the bitumen, two infants stir their skins (Gli oziosi sprofondano nel bitume, due infanti ne rimestano le pelli), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari As idlers sink into the bitumen, two infants stir their skins (Gli oziosi sprofondano nel bitume, due infanti ne rimestano le pelli), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Portrait of nynphomaniacs in the depth of Gomorrah, (Ritratto di ninfomani nel cuore di Gomorra), 2000. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Portrait of nynphomaniacs in the depth of Gomorrah, (Ritratto di ninfomani nel cuore di Gomorra), 2000. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Hypernudism (Ipernudismo), 2009. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Hypernudism (Ipernudismo), 2009. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari The angels of lot (Gli angeli di lot), 2008. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari The angels of lot (Gli angeli di lot), 2008. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Prelude to incest between monozygote twins (Preludio all'incesto tra gemelli monozigoti), 2003. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Prelude to incest between monozygote twins (Preludio all'incesto tra gemelli monozigoti), 2003. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari The anonymity gala at the court of king birsa (Gala dell'anonimia alla corte di re birsa), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari The anonymity gala at the court of king birsa (Gala dell'anonimia alla corte di re birsa), 2004. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Four green lizards going to suck milk from a young mother (Quattro ramarri in procinto di suggere latte da una giovane madre), 2003. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Four green lizards going to suck milk from a young mother (Quattro ramarri in procinto di suggere latte da una giovane madre), 2003. From Sodom and Gomorrah © Alessandro Bavari Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Christ, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Christ, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari
Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, Mithra, Christ, 2009. Stills from Metachaos © Alessandro Bavari

“Alessandro the child artist would sit at a table drawing pictures of clowns with bare breasts and the Madonna with a moustache. In time, these childlike and whimsical representations morphed into darker, distorted, more unsettling interpretations of the human psyche. The work of Alessandro the adult artist, a fusion of mixed-media techniques, inspired by childhood impressions, delves into the very bowels of human despair.”