Naked Defiance
Spring, 2020
An artwork created from PLAYBOY's pages challenges the idea that nudes exist merely for others' pleasurePhotomontages are subversive by nature. They’re counterfactuals—pictures cut up and rearranged to show things as they are not, things as they might be, pictures that pose an anxious question beloved by fantasists, moralists and revolutionaries: What if? Objects and bodies are turned on their heads, sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally. Think of the German dadaist Hannah Höch’s 1929 phot...
