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Katinka Stampa Orwin<br />
katinkagraves@me.com<br />
With the male physique being a powerful magnet for<br />
sexual curiosity my work acts as an alluring and<br />
dramatised study of how the virile male body plays on<br />
the temptation of masculine subjectivity. The close up<br />
fetishised segments of the male bodies I photograph<br />
have a plasticity that contributes to a formal ideal and<br />
leans towards a celebration of the male form. Their<br />
staging, rich in dramatised lighting, directly confronts the<br />
viewer with the physical presence of the male body;<br />
while the sparseness from which the figures emerge<br />
intensifies the photographic crops of the upper body<br />
and slants the works towards moving image frames and<br />
the cinematic. Playing on exposure, conventional<br />
prudency and self-censorship, this voyeuristic blend of<br />
soft and misty images remains erotically charged<br />
through its suggestiveness, and these explicit<br />
representations remain loaded with provocative intent.<br />
‘Chest II’, 2014 (photographic print)<br />
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