Interdisciplinary artist Myriam Mechita creates sculptures, installations, and drawings where graphically violent content is presented as ornamental, sparkling eye candy, resulting in climactic visuals that stir the senses. Mechita’s sculpture work mixes ceramics and found objects and often features beheaded animals — especially deer — hanging upside down in methodical arrangements. Plastic beads — like those that hang from beaded curtains or Mardi Gras necklaces — appear to spill out of their necks. The animals’ bodies become almost like ritualistic sacrifices in Mechita’s work, which carefully balances darkly surrealist juxtapositions, occult imagery, and decorative kitsch.
In constructing her photographs, 
Swedish artist 
Inside her workshop, Sabrina Gruss re-animates found natural materials and animal remains into eerie sculptures. The artist has said she's inspired by her own family's history and a multi-faceted view of death in her works. In terms of inspiration within fine art, she cites outsider and fringe art, as well as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.