In Paris you are in a very strange show: to see, scrutinize, to gaze on the human body, organ by organ ... directly using dead people. The bodies of 17 young Chinese, deprived of skin, organs, and put into positions of "daily life", are on display in an exhibition in Paris " Our Body, A corps ouvert . But not in an area dedicated to students in medicine, but in an exhibition open to the public, "comps" very artistic: corpses put in spectacular locations (one running, one pulling the strings), instead of the poor as if they were dead or wax statues Bronze ... The exhibition has attracted the attention of alarmed many. Two human rights organizations ("Ensemble contre la Peine de Death" and "Solidarité Chine") wonder even the provenance of the corpses in a press release chilling. Several intellectuals have declared themselves against the exhibition, but also the French Committee on Bioethics had declared disappointed, comparing to pure voyeurism that "induced AT A GLANCE technologic on the human body. "
The exhibition brings us to two things: the first on respect for the human body should not use the body of a deceased person to show the public the right to privacy and modesty exists beyond death, at least in our Western culture. In France, they wonder how they would react if the average Parisian, the bodies of 17 young French dead were exposed to the public across the world. Also, put the bodies in an unnatural position for the dead, or even make the artistic sections, as shown in the exhibition site, raises an alarm to the "objectification" can the human body, which even after death is never equal to a pile of bones and cartilage, as the French Committee on Bioethics stated that "The bodies represented were individuals. Their performance (and their reification) is an attack on their identity and therefore their dignity? "The second level is that of voyeurism, which is rampant today in many TV series on television in which they are realistic and bloody mimed autopsy explants, sections of corpses. As spring pushes the man to take an interest of the viscera of the dead, but also to take pleasure from watching an exhibition of torture instruments (there are many in Italy)?
course the taste of blood has always been present in fairy tales and myths, by the DSB beheading children in "Tom Thumb", for Achilles desecrates Hector's body. But it was clear that they were fairy tales. Now he goes a step further, with the difference that, perhaps dissatisfied with their own reality, trying to enter virtually a reality in a body of others of others, to penetrate the bowel, in a realistic manner, without respect - as in fiction TV - the respect due to a dead, dead in the flesh and the virtual, from time immemorial, have mercy secular and religious precept require leave in peace if not honor.
The exhibit will arrive in Italy? And we will be in line to pay to see 17 young Chinese boys exposed to our curiosity and melancholy greedy? The answer is to our sensibilities and our love for the sacredness of life and death.
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