SWEET BOXES

The central theme of this group of works is the male body as an object of contemplation, irony, eroticism and playfulness, inspired by the many women artists like Suzanne Valadon, Alice Neel, Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, Annette Messager, Sylvia Sleigh, Aude du Pasquier Grall and Catherine Opie. Art history books are populated by erotic male nudes - passive nudes and macho males - made by men for each other, as an overstatement of power and its uses, situating women as admirers of male accomplishment and sexual potency. Altough male bodies often refuse to be turned into passive, available nudes, placing men in the positions usually occupied by women in various cultural realms - naked and on display - is a reversal of the normal power relations between the sexes. At the same time, the imaginary of power, strength and decision traditionally associated to masculinity is ironized through an association to the domestic and the private, traditionally linked to the feminine.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

– Lady Bird Box, 1995, wood sculpture, calcography, Ken toy,and acrylic on cloth, 133 (W) x 150 (H) 53 (L) cm, Pony Box, 1995, wood sculpture, calcography, Ken toy,and acrylic on cloth, 120 (W) x 190 (H) 53 (L) cm, Blue Sky Box, 1995, wood box structure, cloth, calcography, Ken toy,and acrylic on cloth, 130 (W) x 137 (H) 53 (L) cm.
– Genre Scenes, 1995, Ken toy, dolls' house furniture, magazine images, 2x 30 (W) x 30 (H) 20 (L) cm.
– Chefs, 1996, 8x 110 (W) x 80 (H) cm, oil pastel, acrylic and collage on paper.
– Pets, 1996, 8x 110 (W) x 80 (H) cm, etching and drypoint.
– Saints, 1998-2022, photomontages.