body con art

and you thought you had body image issues....

Korean artist Bohyun Yoon created 'Mirror costume' as a means to interrogate reality and to integrate that with the everyday experience of contemporary society. It plays with the idea of perception, what is real and what is not.

I personally think it reflects more on the idea of self-perception, on our own delusions about self and how we perceive ourselves may not actually be reality at all. So the question is, is what i see in the mirror the real me? or am i made to believe it as a result of society's reflection on my psyche? (this is me after having watched 'inception' which is a brilliant movie btw)

for more information about the artist: http://www.bohyunyoon.com

more creepy people...

Today seems to be "celebrate creepy people day" on my blog... I've always had a fascination with the slighty macabre and bizarre and these sculptures by Kevin Francis Gray pretty much fit the bill. Saw them at this year's Armory show and I thought they were part kitsch, part glamour and part relic. Some of the works remind me of Bernini's Ecstasy sculptures and yet they look like they ought to belong in Michael Jackson's private art collection, or some cheesy Texan oil millionaire's souped up trailer trash mansion. Contradictory for sure, but beautiful to look at for sure... Kevin's work can be found at Goff + Rosenthal in NYC.





In other creepy people news - Evan Penny - the artist who never fails to make me giddy... not out of awe but because he works play so much with perspective that it makes my eyes go wonky. I first saw his work at a bank's gallery in NYC...i had an argument with my friend cos we couldn't figure out if the sculptures were deliberately skewed to reflect the different angles from different viewpoints or if the windows had some special film that skewed the perspective of the sculptures when you moved... eitherway.. it was unnerving and mesmerizing like watching a train wreck.. nevermind the fact that i was thisclose to fainting, i had to continue looking.

creepy old men...

Recently came across the work of Bernardi Roig...

all i can say is that it's creepy, but sublime in a 'Twilight Zone' kind of way. It's also kind of transfixing - maybe it's all the light. But i like it..in fact i'm fascinated by his work!

They are almost like happenings, yet at the same time they have a Dan Flavin quality to it - 'interventions' between the 2D and 3D plane I believe was what I got from that lecture on conceptual art... It's contemplative, eerie, voyeuristic in some sense and yet perfectly calming...

it's a hawt mess... in a good way.

Bernardi is represented by Claire Oliver in NYC