Granmother's Corpse, 1984. (1-4/4)

Between the years 1983-1984 twentysomething Libera took care of his ill grandmother (Regina G.). The illness and slow agony of the old woman inspired the artist to create a series of works documenting human body degradation. Grandmother's corpse is his last work from the cycle documenting old age and dying of Libera's grandmother, executed after her death.

The work is in a way a reckoning with the whole cycle and grandmother's death, which the artist had to deal with. Thanks to registering the old woman's body, Libera strips death of its mystery, showing her in an extremely physical aspect, and helps demystifying the general taboo. Nudity and literalness of death imply domesticating it, and a harmonised image of dead body stresses the eternal mechanism of time-passing.