Body art exhibition in E.-E. Schmitt's novel "How I was a work of art"

The article deals with the novel by the Franco-Belgian writer E.-E. Schmitt, «How I Was a Work of Art» (2002). The focus is on the body art exhibition in Japan, which featured the novel's protagonist, Adam bis. The ekphrasis of the exhibits is consistently analyzed in the context of conceptual art and the artistic world of the novel.