| NY Arts Magazine - Fall issue - Behind Closed Doors |
| Tuesday, 05 October 2010 00:00 |
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"Estranged" refers to someone or something who was formerly close and no longer is. With a broad and holistic understanding of sexuality and sex and after years of honest and stark introspection and reflection upon existence and society begins "Estranged Sex": a work about a sexuality that is both strange and estranged, natural and alienated. "Estranged sex" suggests an ironic, critical and rarefied approach to sexuality. Sexuality is understood as a psychosocial and biological entity present on each and every aspect of individuals existence, it is a vast and comprehensive understanding of the term that gives meaning to this series. "Estranged Sex" is not a distorted reflection of reality given by a subjective mirror but more the reaction to such reality. Equally, it is not a modern and sexually liberated statement, but rather a fight for a freer understanding. What I propose is a reflection upon sexual taboos, the deconstruction of pornography, the naturalization of what's humane and the normalization of the alienated, the legitimation of female sexuality's goodness and its understanding as something vast and complete. I am thus challenging the established boundaries upon sexuality and defying society's compulsive obsession to control, condemn and restrict human nature. The selected images belong to the series earliest works in 2008-2009. They intended to portray quotidian yet rarified situations both to provoke laughter and thinking. Each of them attempted to address an aspect of sexuality, be it for example the relation to one's body or the naturalness of physical contact and it's distortion and corruption through social learning or featuring a couple that feels forever lacking and in need of following external advice to spice their sexual life with very little success. Although I obviously have my own standpoints, the images do not want to bias the observer into drawing a moral conclusion about what is wrong or what is right. They play with humour to attempt to take heaviness from serious matters and they remain open and weird so that the observer can interpret freely at their own pace.
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