In Pieces. The Fragment and Torso in Visual Art
What is a fragment, both in the context of history and of the present? How and what do we read into it? A fragment, part, segment, or torso depicts the body and a thing wounded, deformed, incomplete, imperfect, but also "beauty in disfigurement", the image of death, tragedy, revolution, eroticism, memento, and absence. Simultaneously it engages our imagination, inviting us to complete the missing part and to find meaning in an unknown whole.