HEART OF STEEL

2023

SOLO EXHIBITION

WILSON SAPLANA GALLERY, COPENHAGEN (DK)

DIMENSIONS VARIABLE

ALUMINUM SHEETS, ENAMEL PAINT, SPRAY PAINT, VARNISH, ALUMINUM ARTIST-FRAMES

STEEL, GLASS, CHROME, SELENITE, PYRITE, ROSE QUARTS, PADLOCKS, INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS

In his acclaimed television series, Ways of Seeing (1972), the British art historian John Berger considered this judgment of the female body and the desirous male gaze within the framework of Western art history. Heart Of Steel mirrors the languorous nudes of great masters, now rising from their repose and striking back at the canvas. They refuse to be governed. They are beyond domination. Berger describes the nude as a uniform that cannot be discarded and the awareness of women as they are observed. Heart Of Steel plays into this charged account of the nude and the performative nature of sexuality and gender, even in private. The female body is inscribed into the metallic surface as if to carve out a space in which women can exist on their own terms. They here appear in the complex roles of porn star, pin-up, and bodybuilder, caught in the midst of giving birth, pleasuring themselves, and urinating while standing.

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