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Photographs by Siren Deluxe at Photospace Gallery

08 Jul 2007
Until 27 July, Photospace Gallery is home to a series of digitally manipulated nude photographs by artist Siren Deluxe that morph the male and female body together.

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Until 27 July, Photospace Gallery is home to a series of digitally manipulated nude photographs by artist Siren Deluxe that morph the male and female body together.Until 27 July, Photospace Gallery is home to a series of digitally manipulated nude photographs by artist Siren Deluxe that morph the male and female body together.In one image, a woman leans back in a retro olive and cream armchair. A flower the same blood red as her lipstick is propped behind her ear. Her legs are crossed and she gazes suspiciously over her shoulder. She is naked but covered in hair. Her thighs are weighted heavily with masculine muscle and her feet are not those of a woman.

In another image a man assumes the pose of a game-show prize presenter. His hand rests delicately on the marbled aqua ceramic surround of the Chatwood gas heater. He is naked except for a pair of pointy black stilettos. His ponytail slithers over his shoulder and ends with a tickled between his breasts. Yes, breasts. He has the body of a woman.

The artist writes in her statement about the work that "mainstream marketable fantasies and gender cliches are absent in these images".

What: A Gender, photographs by Siren Deluxe
When: 9-27 July 2007
Where: Photospace Gallery, Wellington

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