Who Peeled My Phallus?
The series is a quest to emancipate and exorcise the male gaze. It questions the inherent tendency of society to develop a male gaze, that empowers men and objectifies women. In the male gaze, women are visually positioned as an “object” of heterosexual male desire. Her feelings, thoughts and her own sexual drives are less important than her being framed by male desire. This concept of men as watchers and women as being watched, can be traced to decades ago and yet there is slight progress in the politics of this gaze.
The attempt here was to subvert that gaze and capture the voyeuristic nuances of the female point of view. The narrative is dark and sentimental, hybrid and erotic, taking on all kinds of subtle hierarchies: social, sexual, political, regional, emotional and so forth.
Who Peeled my Phallus?
2017
Photoprint and charcoal on canvas
30” x 50”
You Make me Bloom
2017
Gouache, pen, pencil & plastic stickers on acid free paper
12" x 15"
You Make me Bloom II
2017
Gouache on paper
12" x 15"
Vertigineux
2017
Gouache on paper
8.5" x 12"
Sightings
2017
Gouache on paper
8.5" x 12"