delusional parasitosis
Delusional Parasitosis takes its name from the psychiatric syndrome in which a person is convinced that insects are living beneath the skin. No one can prove otherwise: what she feels is as real to her as the skin itself.
Burns builds these tables with the formal language of still life, plates, hands, porcelain, light, and order,  and fills them with what resists nourishment: stones, metal, insects, blood.
The subject is not the pathology itself, but the threshold: the point at which nourishment becomes anxiety, control, and dread. The body is watched from outside. The plate becomes a battlefield.
The hands in these images are the artist's own.
Exhibited as part of Dulce Engaño, Museo del Revellín, Ceuta, and the Municipal Collection of the Ayuntamiento de El Puerto de Santa María.
A surreal plate featuring a toy chicken leg, insect, and colorful sprinkles on mashed potato, surrounded by pills, a baby tooth, and a goldfish in a glass of water. Two hands reach in.
Delusional Parasitosis,  2015
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Fear of Choking , 2015
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Vampirism – Renfield Syndrome: A glass filled with vampire teeth surrounded by candy-red spaghetti, symbolizing the tension between myth and psychiatric reality.
Vampirism – Renfield Syndrome, 2015
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Poisoned, 2015
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The Parasite, 2019
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Fresh Food, 2015
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Sugar and Neurons,  2018
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Meat, 2015
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A blonde doll head with tears sits against a pink background, surrounded by white pills and syringes in symmetrical alignment.
Stop Playing, 2015
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Riflessioni a Tavola, 2015
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