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Hannah Wilke Daniel Kraus on Hannah Wilke
Artforum Jan 01, 2022
Writer Chris Kraus devotes a long section of her 1997 book I Love Dick
to artist Hannah Wilke, who had passed away from lymphoma a few years
earlier. Identifying with Wilke’s reputation as a “female monster,”
Kraus glimpsed what few other writers at the time could see. Over a
career spanning more than three decades, from the late 1950s until her
last days in the cancer ward, where she died at age fifty-two, Wilke
treated her art as a vector of her desire, “continuously exposing
[herself] to whatever situation occurs,” as she put it in a 1976
statement. Rejected as a shameless exhibitionist, she carried on
unhindered, refusing to place her sexuality—or her body—under wraps. Her
striptease was relentless and ruthless, never more so than in her final
body of work, “Intra-Venus,” 1992–93, a series of large-scale color
photographs and videos in which the artist, sick with cancer, stunts for
the camera in the costume of illness, still every bit the goddess in
bandages and with an IV drip.
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