"Petra Brnardic’s psychedelic alien B-horror tentacular trans-species feminist digital collages were a world of words in themselves. In particular, Blooming (2014) was a floral bouquet bursting with snakes with a woman’s legs splayed wide open in some horrifically vulnerable position, each foot balanced on a skull. Yet there was no head attached to the woman; the woman is her body and only that. This piece played with the tradition of the memento mori, the Christian concept of humility by being reminded about one’s own mortality, especially seen in still life paintings using the symbology of skulls and clocks and dying fruit, but this combination of fantastical elements was also a jarring engagement with occult practices and the subjectification of the female body in ritual, of pain and pleasure and sacrifice, ultimately allowing the female form to rise to the status of a goddess, which her other digital collages also evoke. "
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