Body - Gilbert and George

Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York, 1972

"Being living sculptures is our life blood, our destiny, our romance, our disaster, our light and life. As day breaks over us, we rise into our vacuum and the cold morning light filters dustily through the window. We put on our shoes for the coming walk. Our limbs begin to stir and form actions of loseness, as though without gravity they bounce about for the new day. The head afloat on top levels on the horizon of our thought. Our hearts pound with fresh blood and emotion and again we find ourselves standing there all nerved up in body and mind. Often we will glide to this frame of light. Our mind points ever to our decay....... We are just down at the river feeling around. As the shades of night are falling around our neighbourhood we stroll because we know full well that another sculpture day is over."


Gilbert and George explore the physicality of our body as a navigating structure of moving biology.

The mental realisation that the outside world moves and turns is related to our own survival in it and the way we make sense of every little thing within it.

Meg

Reference: Vergine, Lea. Body art and performance: the body as language / Lea Virgine. Milano: Skira, 2000.