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From: ‘An Open Wound’, performance in Collaboration with Simon King. Featured in Deep Trash Romance. Working Men’s Club, (London 2018). Makeup: Agn\u0117 Bu\u010dmyt\u0117, Costume Design: Zilard Sabo, Picture by Martina O’Shea<\/p><\/div>\n

In ‘An open wound’, the artist opens a wound on his torso and invites the audience to collect blood and ink and leave a fingerprint onto his suitcase. The performance is ongoing and repeated to collect prints from various audiences in different locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ‘An open wound’, the artist opens a wound on his torso and invites the audience to collect blood and ink and leave a fingerprint onto his suitcase. The performance is ongoing and repeated to collect prints from various audiences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,57],"tags":[50,8,45,48,12,16,53,22,49,46,51,30,52,44,40,41,47],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-festivals","category-featured","tag-alternative","tag-art","tag-blood","tag-club","tag-community","tag-embodiment","tag-fashion","tag-identity","tag-london","tag-male-body","tag-music","tag-performance-art","tag-sensual","tag-skin","tag-sociology","tag-tattoo","tag-tattoos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ivanlupi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/10_02_-IVAN_-London_MOS-8.jpg?fit=2230%2C1486&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8EPTR-250","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2262,"url":"https:\/\/ivanlupi.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/salut\/","url_meta":{"origin":250,"position":0},"title":"‘SALUT’","author":"ivanlupi","date":"17th February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Lupi personifies messages starkly, in ways which often remain marked indelibly on the artist's body and firmly in the memories of those who view them. 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