Bodyworlds - Art?

So I like watching horror movies. I like the thrill of being scared in a safe environment, in the case of a good movie, and laughing myself silly in movies that are so bad they could only be horror movies, but that doesn’t mean that I have lost my sensibilities as a human being or that I would endorse any kind of unkind, cruel or violent actions that would happen in real life. A few years ago, when I was a student, there was a trend of Shock art, that had to do with Killing animals and photographing the moment of death - (I forget the details - artists names and so on, and don’t particularly want to go there again…) These artists were shown in very legit High end galleries, and we had countless discussions on the validity of this as art.

As far as I was concerned and am still concerned, that kind of piece is not valid as anything, definitely not as art and I haven’t run into anything as appalling in a good few years until today, when I ran into  Bodyworlds on TheoFantastique.

This is a form of something (I will not say art) when by taking a real cadaver and injecting it with plastic,  and positioning it in certain stances it supposedly becomes art. It is the new hot thing now, and currently showing at The Leonardo in salt lake city.

I Don’t really want to go any deeper into this, TheoFantastique pretty much says it all, I just though I would add my own two cents.