Letting Go: The Wonder in Our Wounds

Bringing together previously unpublished stories, The Letting Go explores themes of vulnerability and empowerment through Natascha Stellmach's performance practice. The Letting Go is a long-standing, performative, and participatory practice by artist Natascha Stellmach. It explores themes of vulnerability and empowerment. Following a meditation and in response to the question, What would you like to let go of? , the practice involves identifying, naming, embodying, and experiencing healing and impermanence through the body. Its method includes ritual tattooing without ink (a bloodline tattoo) to address a personal obstacle and initiate an intimate enquiry. Over a period of almost 10 years, Stellmach performed more than 120 sessions with individuals in galleries and privately, including herself. Through evocative photography, academic research, and participant-contributed selfies and reflections, the publication invites readers to embrace the wonder in our wounds and offers a deeply human portrait of what it means to let go. The book includes a foreword by acclaimed actor Sandra Hüller, as well as essays by curator and arts writer Kelly Gellatly and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Matthew McArdle. SELLING POINTS: . Natascha Stellmach is an artist renowned for her participatory and often provocative works, most notably The Letting Go, a ritualised practice involving bloodline tattooing . Weaves together evocative photography, academic research, and participant-contributed selfies and reflections to offer a deeply human portrait of what it means to let go