"Sometimes When We Touch" Exhibition
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
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Stephen Irwin is a chaste fantasist and an erotic iconoclast, remaking the sacred naïve pornography of his adolescence into a shifting representation of sexuality that is not simply a catalog of ready-made alternatives but a redefined and fanciful altered state.
Irwin can be seen as something of an appropriation artist who doesn’t restrict himself to merely appropriating, a found-object artist for whom the finding is only half the fun. Selecting pages from vintage pornography, Irwin undoes the lusty plastic polish of the magazine, rubbing out the sheen and often much of the image itself, isolating erogenous zones of special interest with the focus of a loving eye. Through a variety of rugged and astringent processes, he softens the blunt sexuality of the found image, abstracting the depicted scene into a vision far more ephemeral and imaginative, censoring much of what might have been shocking about the image in its original form and invoking instead a more suggestive and expansive erotic landscape of tenderness and perversion, intimacy and lust, chastity and lasciviousness.
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Schedule
from October 23, 2009 to November 29, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-23 from 18:00 to 20:00