Photography Installation -
Niamh Caulfield-Lynch
This piece vocalises connections between gender and sexuality. Looking at the over-sexualisation of women in photography and media, and how this contrasts with the way males and females are portrayed.
“I tried to photograph both subjects in exactly the same way; Overtly sexual (in context as well as lighting/positioning) but not over-sexualised or objectified.”
The artist then explores defacing the photographs, connecting them with plastic, bubble wrap and hot glue; this manipulation of the prints minimises the sexual context of the photographs, as the bodies appear to morph together. The viewer begins to make connections and distinguish between the bodies which detracts from the main sexual substance.
The materials used begin to display connections between the two figures, but in polarity it appears to show a sexual flavour.
With gender fluidity and the morphing of the genders becoming much more apparent; why is it that photographic representations still appear to draw a line of division.
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