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Cock Blok
Six silicone dildos, 2004 |
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Especially made for the show in a three way collaboration with Jason
Wallis Johnson and Babes n Horny, Cock Block (2004) forms the
centrepiece, with allusions to the dreamy ceiling paintings of
Tiepolo, (less stormy than the Northern skies of Ruisdael - and
altogether less real). The dome of heaven cloaks these phalluses,
raises or lowers them in a space that it, not they, control.
Desire is contained - libido defused. Turnescent in the vault
of Tiepolo's ceiling, whose oculus is one with the imagined urethra
of this not too solid flesh, which melts (to mangle Shakespeare
and Marx) into air. Spears shaken impotently in a void which
disdains the male presence.
Studio 1.1 Gallery, London E2
13th Feb to 24th March 2004 |
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