Abstract
This essay focuses on skin as a surface that lends itself to projections and societal attributions of all sorts. It deals with writings on skin, latent texts as well as strong marks, with transgressions and transcriptions of somatic data into moral issues, with the blush in eighteen-century portraits of women and the shameless behavior in online performances of young women today, with reddened cheeks, as well as snow-white and smeared bodies. It deals with the “fairer sex,” ideological constructs of purity and innocence, and deliberately disfigured skin, with acts and re-enactments of violence and aggression, rebellion, and defiance. And it presents a photo project by the Austrian artist Iris Andraschek that gets under your skin.
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