| pornography/forest_pics |
| pornography/forest_pics is an ongoing series in which hardcore pornographic images that are set within or around forests are found on the Internet. The images are downloaded and the human bodies are then digitally removed from the pornographic images. By erasing the bodies, another space previously obscured by the action is recovered. This space is constructed by repeating other sections of the photograph. The way each shot is taken suggests that it is focusing on an event. When the action is removed, the photographs appear to depict a space where something has already taken place – they bring to mind police forensic photography, as though the spaces were the sites of forbidding, if unnamed, events. The forest setting complements this ambiguity: at once a place of beauty and danger, of obscuring and clearing – a public as well as a private space. Its quasi-repetition throughout the series both reproduces the banality of porn itself and elaborates a typography of spaces. |
Read text written in response to 'Albertine goes South', curated by Rut Blees Luxemburg |
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| >> Screenings and slide shows Besame Mucho Mas, Chat's Palace, London, UK, 2008 Kinoskipos, Hadspen Gardens, Somerset, UK, 2007 Itchy Park, Lime House Town Hall, London, UK, 2007 |
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