Julia R. Gallego is a Spanish artist based in London. She studied MA printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, were she started experimenting with performance. Her practice explores the representation of the opening of the body, and looks at how gender, religion and anatomy intersect when the skin is trespassed. She draws inspiration from medieval anatomical and religious illustrations and bodyart, drawing connections between the dissector's cut, the wound in Christian iconography and the female reproductive organs. She proposes to look at accesses to the interior of the body taking the vagina as a central analogy and exploring menstrual and birthing symbolism.
She is currently a PhD candidate at Central Saint Martins and has published The Dissector's Cut, the Wound and the Orifice: Looking at Ron Athey's performances through a cultural anatomy of the vagina for Performance Research journal.
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Julia R. Gallego is a Spanish artist based in London. She studied MA printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, were she started experimenting with performance. Her practice explores the representation of the opening of the body, and looks at how gender, religion and anatomy intersect when the skin is trespassed. She draws inspiration from medieval anatomical and religious illustrations and bodyart, drawing connections between the dissector's cut, the wound in Christian iconography and the female reproductive organs. She proposes to look at accesses to the interior of the body taking the vagina as a central analogy and exploring menstrual and birthing symbolism.
She is currently a PhD candidate at Central Saint Martins and has published The Dissector's Cut, the Wound and the Orifice: Looking at Ron Athey's performances through a cultural anatomy of the vagina for Performance Research journal.