Debi Oulu
“Hold on Tight”
2011
“A human climbing wall in which the holds are made of sexual
parts of male and female bodies – penis, vagina, ass, breasts and mouth (all
but the breasts being orifices). How does the climber feel having to jam
his/her toes and fingers into these orifices in order to get to the top?” This
is what Oulu says about this work. I think it is both bizarre and grotesque,
and very compliant with my theme. I am awed at how her creativity pushed her to
combine such a plutonic, every day activity such as rock climbing with overt
sexual objects.
CJ Jilek
“Tart”
2010
Some of her pieces are
singular objects that stand alone, but I am more drawn to her pieces where
there are two different object interacting, like the image I have shown. Her
work fits with my theme because it is all about creating metaphors from the
natural world, specifically how plants reproduce, and linking that to human
sexuality. My theme of the grotesque and the sexual plays a role because the
pieces she creates are unrecognized in the sense they do not look like plants.
To me, they look like bizarre, abstracted interpretations of body parts. They
are seductively slimy and sensuously polished and smooth.
Patrick Veillet
“2010”
Veillet’s two pieces I chose are very
anatomical, antler like, and vertebrae like which are appear animalistic and
almost gross. Because they are placed directly on bare skin, his wearable sculptures
become sensual. Furthermore, the way he has photographed these pieces on the
body, he has left one breast is exposed, which further accentuates its sexual
nature.
Jim Duvall
“Newtons Cradle”
2011
Duvall’s photography is overtly erotic, but
this image in particular transforms eroticism into a grotesque objectification
of the female body. The way he treats the female forms by hanging them up,
upside down, with their sexual organs staring at us straight in the face is
hard to look at, as it is. This arrangement also reminds me very much of the
way meat are hung up, strung together and side by side.
Georg Herold
2011
His works are grotesque in their very angular abstractions
with overly sexed stretching positions and the way he handles the material and
modeling of the figure. His work is different than a lot of the others I have
addressed in relation to this theme. I like the not as obvious connection
between the gross and the sexual.
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