Body Fish

In 1987 in her austerely composed series Körperfische (Body Fish), Seyler precisely placed a mackerel on the female body, the tail fin and slippery abdomen becoming something like a pubic triangle. It is well known that all life began in water. In the womb, the human being is also still a water dweller (the uterus: a potential aquarium, so to speak) before he or she crawls ashore at birth respectively pulled out and dried off. And unlike the fish, the human being survives in the air.

Claudia Aigner