
03/14/2025
MARCH 13: HANS BELLMER—THE ARTIST WHO TURNED OBSESSION INTO OBJECTS
(No Filters. No Excuses. Just Flesh, Fractured and Reassembled, Staring Back at You.)
Hans Bellmer did not sculpt beauty.
He built things that should not exist.
He didn’t paint ideals.
He assembled bodies like broken toys.
And when the world looked away, disgusted?
Bellmer kept going.
THE BLUEPRINT OF A FIXATION
1933. Germany.
The N***s are demanding perfection—
The ideal body. The pure bloodline. The flawless form.
Bellmer takes one look at this obsession with order and responds with chaos.
• He builds a doll.
• He breaks it apart.
• He rebuilds it.
• He photographs it.
This isn’t child’s play.
This is sabotage.
Because if the world wants purity, Bellmer gives them deformity.
If the world wants obedient bodies, he gives them bodies that won’t sit still.
THE DOLL—A BLUEPRINT FOR DESIRE AND CONTROL
Bellmer’s Doll Series (La Poupée) wasn’t about childhood innocence.
• Legs that shouldn’t be there.
• Twisted torsos, warped and repeated.
• Bodies made of too many parts—or not enough.
They are not statues.
They are not mannequins.
They are things that were built to be rearranged.
Because that’s what obsession does.
It rearranges.
It repeats.
It refuses to end.
BELLINGERENT, EXILED, ERASED, REVIVED
• The N***s banned his work.
• The French welcomed him as a Surrealist.
• The world never knew what to do with him.
His art wasn’t just disturbing.
It was too personal.
Too close to something we don’t talk about.
Too explicit about what happens when control and power and desire get tangled up.
And now?
His work sits in museums.
His name is in art history books.
Because that’s how it works.
The things we try to erase always come back.
And Hans Bellmer never stopped constructing.