Actress Athene Seyler attempts to contort her body, in a scene from the show, “Skin Deep”. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). Circa 1928

A participant has his body painted before a regional bodybuilding championship in Stavropol, southern Russia, April 10, 2016. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)

English-Albanian singer and songwriter Dua Lipa shows off her end-of-summer body in the last decade of August 2023. (Photo by dualipa/Instagram)

Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in San Jose and Philadelphia, United States. Her recent photographic work is a conspicuous exploration of sensual surfaces in which the body is deliberately confused with nature and nature with the body.

A PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activist with her body painted promotes veganism in Bangkok April 21, 2016. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

People eat sushi off the body of a model at an opening event of a bar in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, August 22, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A model gets ready backstage during a body art festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 23, 2016. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

A man paints a boy's body in preparation for the Grebeg ritual on June 25, 2014 in Tegallalang Village, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. During the biannual ritual, young members of the community parade through the village with painted faces and bodies to ward off evil spirits. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)