| Title: | Preludes, 1990 |
| Medium: | Electrostatic prints on mellotex paper. 20 pieces, each 42 x 30cm |
| The prelude is a convention typical to
explicit pornography - serving to facilitate pleasure by imagining the sexual
act as proceeding from (and in retrospective contrast to) every-day and common
circumstances. All of the people in these scenes are ‘actors’ in hard-core pornographic magazine narratives for which these short innocuous sequences provide an introduction. Each actor is 'playing for real' in a scene that is too banal to have been contrived and yet not so unequivocally identifiable as 'hard core porn'. The resulting image is a documentary photograph of an intimate pose more obscene and complex than the subsequent and predictable joining of bodies from which it has been isolated. Each image has been enlarged slightly so as to make visible the colour dot matrix of the offset lithographic print and, by its inclusion within the disquieting arrangement of signs, (introductions, sly glances, vulgar ornaments etc.) is intended to arouse curiosity or suspicion in whomever ponders its ambiguous and engorged normalcy. |
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