Iké Udé "Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum"
57 STUX + HALLER Gallery
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The premise of "Fantasy and Simulacrum" is a saucy, sexual, erotic conversation and engagement between the artist's alter ego, Visconti, and Paris Hilton and is both a reference and departure to "Beyond Decorum," Udé's seminal conceptual photographic series of clothing and shoes paired with titillating text appropriated from adult personal advertisements. Utilizing a cacophony of visual material culled from gossip blogs, porn sites, wallpaper samples, fashion/lifestyle magazines and film, Udé's new hybrid pictorial style employs free association and an absurd sense of humor in rendering works that manage to be both whimsical and monumental, confusing our conception of historical fact with salacious artistic interpretation. Udé expresses his fondness for fantasy and kink, making reference to both his own complex cultural narrative, as well as to society's susceptibility to the cyclical and sometimes ironically amusing demands of hot trends.
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from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-12-11 from 18:00 to 20:00