Adrian Piper Food for the Spirit 1971

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In addition to her art practice, Piper is a philosopher whose scholarly career includes teaching and writing. This series was made over a summer in which she studied Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason intensely and put herself on a disciplined regimen of fasting, yoga, and isolation. Subsumed in Kant's thought, she often felt she was losing her sense of self. She has said, "To anchor myself in the physical world, I ritualized my frequent contacts with the physical appearance of myself in the mirror, through Food for the Spirit."

Gallery label from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, November 21, 2007-July 28, 2008.
Sitter
Adrian Piper
Medium
Gelatin silver prints, printed 1997
Dimensions
Each 14 1/2 × 14 3/4" (36.8 × 37.5 cm)
Credit
The Family of Man Fund
Object number
374.1998.1-14
Copyright
© 2022 Adrian Piper
Department
Photography

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