The Swage (2)
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2018
Artist: @BoiHugo (Chinese)
Dimensions:
80 x 55cm
Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper
Object number: UAC 954
Description@BoiHugo studied MA Photography at London College of Communication. They say:
''The Swage' is an attempt to initiate a conversation on interchangeable gaze, fetishism, oppression and audacity. I appropriate images with blatant and even violent titles from pornography websites, print them out, place them on underwear and scan them. I am fascinated by the almost suffocating effect from the scanner and the tactility and intimacy of both paper and fabric. The found material is presented in collages with original photography displaying my voyeuristic observation of a hegemonic masculinity and fragments of life.
The contrast between the high resolution scanned background and the deliberately blurred casual snapshots is a mix of “high” and “low”, blending what is mainstream and what is marginalized.
With my constant interest in various manifestations of masculinity and how they relate to racialized subjectivities and the male body, I hope to give voice to an under-represented segment of the population, a segment of which I am a part.'
''The Swage' is an attempt to initiate a conversation on interchangeable gaze, fetishism, oppression and audacity. I appropriate images with blatant and even violent titles from pornography websites, print them out, place them on underwear and scan them. I am fascinated by the almost suffocating effect from the scanner and the tactility and intimacy of both paper and fabric. The found material is presented in collages with original photography displaying my voyeuristic observation of a hegemonic masculinity and fragments of life.
The contrast between the high resolution scanned background and the deliberately blurred casual snapshots is a mix of “high” and “low”, blending what is mainstream and what is marginalized.
With my constant interest in various manifestations of masculinity and how they relate to racialized subjectivities and the male body, I hope to give voice to an under-represented segment of the population, a segment of which I am a part.'