‘Lavenderboys and Femmedrones’
2019

Solo show at Spanien19 (DK)

Mixed media installation of framed digital photographic prints of handmade collages, thirteen theater lamps with red filters and individual timers that produce loud clicks when they turn on and off in varied sequences; changing the focus of the lighting from one are of the exhibition to another. There were drawings fastened on gaze and on a noticeboard, video and sound piece (15 min), at steel table and lamp showing publication featuring poetry, drawings and collages titled ‘Lavenderboys And Femmedrones’.

The exhibition investigates three spaces of voyeurism: The photographic dark room, the cinema and more specifically sci fi and horror film, and lastly the pornographic works of the 60ies gay cinema and magazines. The focal point and lense being the red light or safe light in photography, as a marker, appears in all of these spaces with different meanings. Work carried out in a dark room is often solitary and silent, barred from any sunlight and sense of time, day or night, exposing imagry of the object of the photography. In the cinema the red light appears as blood spattered frenzy, through which the killer and cinemagoers see the victims, after which they can leave, feeling shocked and exhilarated. In the history of pornography and in the urban landscape the red light marks a place of selling of sex, only recently decriminalized. At once out of sight and in plain sight, the red light is a beacon for those who know what to look for. The voyeuristic and often solitary behavior of visual fascination with and consumption of the bodies of others. The popularized thrill of a fictionalized sci fi/horror, murder, sex, of creating and possessing an image taken from the context of the world outside.


Documentation above by Luna Lund Jensen, 2019

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