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After Atkins: PETcorso Vita
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Dressed in Flowers (2020-2021)
Silver gelatin photograms 30 x 40 cm up to 70 x 108 cm
"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves." - John Berger - Ways of Seeing
I began looking at women’s lingerie from the male viewpoint, wondering particularly what makes lace ’sexy’. Photograms let me see things in - literally - a different light, and in the darkroom I discovered a different dimension of these clothes: a delicate beauty made of intricate floral patterns and dreamy transparencies that has something intimate and liberating in it, more sensual, tactile and personal that the external gaze.
I began looking at women’s lingerie from the male viewpoint, wondering particularly what makes lace ’sexy’. Photograms let me see things in - literally - a different light, and in the darkroom I discovered a different dimension of these clothes: a delicate beauty made of intricate floral patterns and dreamy transparencies that has something intimate and liberating in it, more sensual, tactile and personal that the external gaze.
