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Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin dual-sided theory of The Carnival & the Grotesque Body questions our notions of utopia and dystopia. It focuses on primal human desires, excess, gluttony and lust but doesn’t shy from the other end of the spectrum: death and disease. We as a society find lots of things about our bodies ‘gross’ or ‘unpleasant’ and therefore keep a whole area of ourselves hidden away.

I wanted to explore the multiple emotions caused by viewing these parts of ourselves that are often concealed from public view and the vastly different reactions they can cause depending on the individual.