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"We need new skin. It could be something like fur, like the scales of a snake, like the downy hairs of a plant, like glowing glass. It obscures our previous category just as manipulating one of the genes leads to a tomato with a moth gene and a sheep with a frog gene," reads Japanese artist. "I am a man as well as a woman, and I can be an animal, plant, or dead matter."
Mayumi Hosokura's work might be ambiguous, reliant on imagination, and at times hard to comprehend. But one thing is astutely clear: Mayumi Hosokura is affected by Donna Haraway's writings. Taking the famed scholar's ideas of blurring boundaries between a multitude of bodies – man and woman, human and animal, living and non-living beings – she breaks down boundaries in favour of hybrid organisms.
visualises this conundrum through a large-scale digital collage which Hosokura created using clippings from old gay magazines, statues, and found selfies, together with her own photographs — specifically choosing to use images of male figures only. Why? To re-think the male gaze.anticipates the future of the body in a time of advancing digital and bio-technologies.
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