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‘Acquiring Males’ as part of the Wallpaper Wars Exhibition at Off The Kerb Gallery 66B Johnston St Collingwood.
Gallery Hours, Thur – Fri 12.30 – 6pm, Sat – Sun 12 – 5pm
(Until September 21st)Pia de Bruyn has created a humorous and monumental series of drawings that intercept and purposely slant views of contemporary masculinities. Covering a whole room with large pencilled documentations of the male anus, de Bruyn creates a literal kaleidoscope of floating orgiastic excesses, with the drawings of faceless males signifying a dispersion of personal identity. Similar in content to the historic magazine from New York, ‘Straight to Hell', which regularly contains erotic renderings of completely anonymous male sexual activity, the magazine is used (in the words of founder, Boyd McDonald) as a combatant to 'North America's number one killer: sore nuts'. De Bruyn uses the same amusing and comical approach to a subject that can sometimes highly offend and outrage some parts of society. However her large drawings of imagined participants compliment and add face to these adapted and edited acts of random sex; dismantling the heterogeneous iconography associated with the loaded subject of homosexuality and specifically the male orifice. Her monumental dictations in pencil somehow foresee the uncomfortable yet natural enjoyment of the viewer. The images can be described as masturbatory and are a wicked and hilarious exploit of female desire onto a specifically all male subject.
They aren’t an attempt to represent maleness; they aim to collect it.
A 7-day series of collectable rectum hankies including images from the large-scale drawings have been produced to compliment these drawings.
The hankies are a parody of the feminine kerchief. Finely rendered, screen-printed and laced. An arsehole for every day of the week.
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