Hannah Wilke

Wilke ia known for her photographic work of performances in which she used her own body and she established herself as both the artist and the subject of her work. Wilke coined the term "Performalist Self-Portrait" to describe photographic work she created.
Hannah Wilke died in 1993 from Lymphoma. Her last work, Inra-Venus is a posthumously published photographic record of her physical transformation and deterioration resulting from chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. The photographs which were taken by her husband confront the viewer with personal images of Wilke progressing from midlife happiness to bald, damaged and resigned.

This piece of work links in with my theme of Identity as it is showing how her body is slowly giving in to the cancer and her identity fading.