Meet the collage artist whose main inspiration is a manual on how to become a gigolo 🍆
kooky collages explore the complicated role of imagery, and the vital part it plays in the construction of both national and gendered identities. Aiming to both subvert and survey the way these images operate within specific ideological frameworks, Aikaterini cuts-up and re-orders vintage photographs in order to create puzzle-like pieces that question preconcieved ideas around the body, nature and pleasure.
"My intention in making the book is to open up a set of possibilities. I want to give shape to all the possibilities of bodies coming together, bodies coming together with animals or objects, and coming together in different types of spaces, from landscapes to house interiors," comments the artist. LOVE sits down with Aikaterini to talk vintage photographs, the complicated notion of subversion, and how an '80s self-published manual on 'how to become a gigolo' became a main source of inspiration.Aikaterini Gegisian, from ‘Handbook of the Spontaneous Other’ . Courtesy the artist and MACK.
It was not an image but a magazine that firstly inspired me to collect found images of bodies at work. It was in 2014 in New York that I bought my first vintage pornographic magazine, a black and white affair. The images in the magazine were not glossy but printed in a textured paper reminiscent of cheap newspaper print. This photographic texture gave the sexualised bodies an ambiguous quality.
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