Jan Fabre – Stigmata, Actions & Performances 1976-2013
My body, my blood, my landscape, 1978
Performance
, several days
Antwerp, Julius De Geyterstraat 205
After attending an exhibition in the Groeninge Museum in Bruges on Stigmata in the work of Flemish masters Jan Fabre becomes greatly attracted to the body as a subject. The physical shock of seeing for example Gerard David’s Judgement of Cambyses, urges him to penetrate his own body.