"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum."
—Claes Oldenburg, 1961
love it. i want to see a contemporary photograph that is full on political-erotical-mystical. (all three. not just two!)
what have you got for me, internets?
here are just a few that i think nail two, but not all three categories:
erotical-mystical:
(Miranda Lehman)
(Hanna Liden)
political-erotical:
(David Wojnarowicz, from Rimbaud in New York: not a fresh, contemporary image, but still so amazing.)
(Jen Smith, quoting Catherine Opie. Opie's work would fall into this category for me as well. actually, a lot of work falls into the category of 'political-erotical,' but not all of it moves me especially...)
political-mystical:
(can mystical and political co-exist? they often repel each other. but i think this one fits the bill, by Guillaume Herbaut, from the Asgarda series.)
political-erotical-mystical?
please send thoughts my way! you get to define the terms however you wish.
3 comments:
Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley in a commercial-literal sort of way, or the Polish Venus by Rineke Dijkstra but then you could put almost any category in and I'd say that. Rankin's Tony Blair portrait in a very strange and pervy self-loving kind of way...
Those are a bit rubbish suggestions, but there must be loads loads more.
Just about anything from Mikhailov's Case History - there's something mystical going on there I think.
What about the work of Australian artist Ray Cook? I can't decide if he fits into all three categories at once in an obvious way but he definitely is close.
www.raycook.com.au
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