As most people know, Tony Podesta has a 2,000lb Louise Bourgeois sculpture hanging in his stairwell. The Arch of Hysteria resembles one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims and it is the way that hysteria victims are often found to contort themselves. The position is technically known as “opisthotonos” and is associated with anything that would cause reduced brain function or injury to the nervous system. The arch is used also in some occult texts
Louise Bourgeouis has a well-known sculpture of a gigantic spider (complete with marble eggs) that is a travelling art installation. One theory is that the spiders are symbolic of a global web of powerful families and their creation of a new surveillance technology using broadcast soundwaves, called spider technology. The eggs symbolize the 20 national security agencies around the world who have access to these images.
The movie The Skin I Live in, starring Antonio Banderas, was inspired by and appears to be an homage to Bourgeouis, whose work is featured heavily. It is in the genre of horror. The movie references a favourite of the Satanists: black and white chequered floor and artist Mondrian. Without giving too much away, Banderas plays a doctor who tortures and rapes a victim in the most horrible ways.
What I've spoken about before, which is the ability of some of these 'artists' to depersonalise and dehumanise victims, happens also in this movie. Even movie critics say it:
Torture entails agony but what happens to Robert’s victim is something else: desensitization, a deficit of feeling, a harrowing loss of pain to go along with all Vera’s other losses.
And this, I think, is at the heart of the film, or perhaps I should say the heart of the problem of the film. The Skin I Live In is cold, cruel, detached; its grim sex scenes—if that is the right phrase: really they are scenes of molestation if not outright rape—are scenes of disaffection, discomfort, suffering. So the loss of sensation extends to pleasure too, and I would say that the problem of the film is its “visual un-pleasure,”..
imho, we have in the world a clear division of people working for the light and those working towards darkness and manipulation. We have to decide whose team we are on. This is a war of good versus evil, and it's scarily similar to what's in Revelations.
UglyTruth ago
In IT parlance, spiders or crawlers are programs which scan web pages to build an information map that can be used in search engines or for research purposes.
Are_we__sure ago
Louis Bourgeois has nothing to do with Jeffredy Dahmer whatsoever. That is one of a list of fake pieces of evidence that have gotten repeated over and over and over without anyone doing any real investigation into that as is this piece of batshittery.
Why would you even repeat such nonsense?
It's is neither inspred by or an homage to Bourgeois is based on a French novel from 1984, a one minute search of wikipedia would have told you this. The book was published as Tarantula. Bourgeois's first spider sculpture appeared over a decade after the book came out.
Piscina ago
You've obviously read not one of the links I've provided. Here are the facts:
'Jeffrey' not 'Jeffredy'. And your comment is incorrect. We know that the Arch of Hysteria is specifically depicting Dahmer’s victims, not just someone suffering an ailment, because the statue has been decapitated, just like Dahmer’s victim was.
Since the Dahmer victim that was posed in this manner was subjected to a trepanning operation, and muriatic acid was injected into his brain in an attempt to turn him into a mindless sex slave, it seems likely to me that the victim took this pose naturally, while he was still alive and suffering from the surgery. Dahmer then decapitated him (as we see in the photo) and placed him in that position again as a reminder of that.
The installation piece is entitled Maman. During the first act of the four-day show on July 27, 2017 the Maman, the monstrous spider ensnared the statue of Our Lady on top of Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa. It does not require a genius to figure out that it was a symbolic act pretending the Devil triumphed over Our Lady. As the spider entrapped Our Lady, eight men ran back and forth toward the spider as if they were baby spiders running in its web. Possibly a reference to the Sons of the Widow, another name for Freemasons. http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A740-Spider.htm
'Inspired' not 'inspred'. And again you are incorrect. Several serious art critics have stated that the film either paid homage to or was inspired by Louise Bourgeouis. For example, Art in America said:
The Skin I Live In was inspired to a significant degree by Louise Bourgeois's work ... A number of pieces by Bourgeois ... are highlighted. The sculptor's figurative works in sewn cloth correspond to the pieces of artificial, laboratory-manufactured skin that Ledgard uses to recreate his wife's features.
Film Quarterly references:
... the film’s debt to Louise Bourgeois. ...doubles and dolls figure heavily in Freud’s essay on the uncanny; and in Skin Vera stitches together fragments of cloth to make faceless (defaced?) figures inspired by Bourgeois’s sculptures. Like Vera, Almodóvar explores therapeutic suture (the piecing together of cloth, skin, and celluloid), making it a trope for psychic fragmentation but also reconstruction. One quote pencilled on Vera’s wall diary is said to come from a book by Bourgeois: “Art is the guarantee of health.”
There are more similar comments if you'd care for me to post them.
RweSure ago
You may "know" this but it is completely false. She did a series of arches of hysteria and her first work on this dates to 1989
https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_reesults.php?object_id=70922
This is years before Dahmer was arrested. And there's no evidence that the Dahmer crime scene photos were available to the public at the time of his trial. The earliest example we have of the photo of that Dahmer victim a textbook on murder from 1996.
She has talked often about who and what her inspiration for her Arches of Hysteria and it's not Dahmer. It's Jean-Martin Charcot.
This is pretty poor art criticism. For one, the legs and arms are nothing like Dahmer's victim. Also a sculpture that has never had a head is not decaptiated. Rodin's torsoes are not the victims of violence. They have not had their arms and legs and head cut off. A Bust is not a head cut from a body.
Also her first "Arch of Hysteria" scultpture which was part of one of her cells has no head and no arms.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4c/75/97/4c759777424cc830e663b22eb59e4958--louise-bourgeois-artist-studios.jpg
So your evidence for you quoting a ridiculous theory is to quote a separate ridiculous theory? You are aware that the four day show you talk about is NOT Maman? and has nothing to do with Louis Bourgeois?
I know that The Skin I'm In has a whole section on Bourgeois, but it's based on book.
Piscina ago
Watching you tie yourself in knots just to counter a rational argument is pretty funny.
RweSure ago
rational.
Um, yeah.
A rational argument that is completely wrong and impossible in real time.
Sure.
Tradcat ago
Excellent post and interesting connections
I came across this story about a giant spider placed ontop of a cathedral in Ottowa this summer
http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A740-Spider.htm
Also Louise Bourgeois is being promoted In a new international publication Called Women in Art 278 along with Many other dark and nefarious artists https://art278.blogspot.com/?m=1
In my opinion it is part of a sinister plan to normalize darkness
Piscina ago
The Freemason spider devouring Our Lady. Disgusting.