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ARTIST STATEMENT
The photographs in this series are executed by
downloading a variety of pornographic images from the
Internet, removing the bodies and then digitally
reconstructing the backgrounds from the existing
evidence. In looking beyond the camouflage of naked
flesh, what remain are carefully constructed and
over-produced fictions; the mise-en-scènes of domestic
space, suburban melodramas, utopian ideals and
fantasies. Within the staged, mythic world of
pornography, these newly constructed narratives offer
a number of sites from which to critique underlying
assumptions about sexuality, class, race, desire and
commodification.
Laura
2003
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