Evelyn Bencicova's 'Ecce Homo': Sterile Nudes as Sculptural Compositions

Slovak artist Evelyn Bencicova (b. 1992, Bratislava) presents 'Ecce Homo', a photographic series featuring choreographed arrangements of nude, hairless bodies in stark, empty interiors. The figures, mostly female and headless, form sculptural or architectural tableaux, stripped of sensuality. Bencicova, a Vienna University of Applied Arts graduate now based in Berlin, works across commercial fashion (Gucci, Cartier, Nehera, Elle, Dazed & Confused) and art (Kunsthalle Basel, Slovak National Theatre and Ballet, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Berghain). She has won Hasselblad Masters and Broncolor Gen Next awards and co-directed the short film 'Asymptote' (2016) with Adam Csoka Keller and Arielle Esther. The series, published in Artribune Magazine #44, draws on her Slovak upbringing and Christian iconography of suffering, depicting anonymous bodies in cold, aseptic environments as metaphors for human mortality. The title references the biblical 'Ecce Homo' ('Behold the Man'), reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens.