ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses a range of examples of sculptural self-portraiture, including also a number of medical self-portraits. Case studies for this section include works by Arte Povera artists Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio, who explored the wider effect of their presence on their environment, and by the sculptor Antony Gormley, who developed forms of architectural self-portraiture, which produced spaces that could be explored from within. Two final case studies illustrate the rendering of the self as multiple, focussing on the work of Orlan, who remodelled her body according to somatic and symbolic characteristics from the history of art, and Stelarc, whose self-networks and semi-living artworks have challenged established definitions of what we commonly call ‘self’.
