“The people who take part in this project have established a sort of companionship with pain,”explains sociologist David Le Breton. Others as a way of finally achieving the ideal image they have of themselves. Here, tattooing is seen first and foremost as a gruelling process, resulting in a black mass over the entire body from head to toe, covering the face, the arms and the hands. However, behind this satanic trio and their apparent sadism lies a very real desire to offer a unique experience in total opposition to contemporary tattooing practices where pain must be minimised. A Scotsman, an Italian and a German, united by the same mantra 'no pain no gain' and their unprecedented tattooing is portrayed in the Vice documentary as sessions of veritable torture. Three artists specialising in blackwork tattoos (large-scale, all black tattooing). The people behind the Brutal Black Tattoo Project are Cammy Stewart, Valerio Cancellier and Phillip 3Kreuze. The tattoo as means of surpassing oneself

The body seems to forcefully vomit out this ink that’s trying by any means to make its mark, but the man resists, because this is the challenge he has chosen to undertake.ġ. Bilious blood oozes from markings which wickedly striate over his chest. The bulging eyes of the (self) mutilated man weep over this black ink that eats into his skin raw.

In the tattoo parlour chair, it is indeed the endless cry of a taught body, undergoing the fierce incision of ink-drenched needles, which is stifled by a tenacious will to deal with the pain. “ What if a tattoo was first of all a noise? The sound of a needle sinking into the skin, the skin crying out? Because the noises are there: the electrical crackling of the device, the silent flow of warm blood, the muted sound of the sponge absorbing the blood, the indistinct cry of the skin when the needle enters the flesh,” writes Vincent Estellon in his book Tatouage sur corps ou envers de l’expression *.

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