ÃÖ°í°ü¸®ÀÚ | February 17, 2014 | view 4,610
2008 l Walsh Gallery l Review 
Chang Jia
Walsh Gallery (118 N Peoria. 2ndfl)
Entering the darkened gallery, we view large, black and white female nudes, beautifully rendered. On further investigation, we notice the standing nudes are urinating. At that juncture, the photographs offset this viewer with the duality of elegance and disarment. The classic rendering lessens the impact taboo being broken and diffused. But its impact is still not unlike a stone hurled from the anarchist¡¯s hand. In recent art history, we have seen Robert Mapplethorpe¡¯s fetishistic photographs of one man pissing in the mouth of another, as well as Wolfgang Tillman¡¯s drunken punk standing up on a chair having a slash. So what is the intent of such shock tactics and strategies? Possibly it¡¯s manifold: to expand parameters of free thought, to push boundaries of acceptance, and to transform antiquated conservative dictum and convention. Breaking down codes of censorship. Relinquishment of individual truths, without government or societal interference. To dislodge old values, to rewire the brain, to make change.
 
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