Mimi Kelly
Referencing powerful and polemic atmospheric genres from the surreal
and macabre through to fashion and pornography, Kelly's self-portraits
present the hyper-sexualised and overtly agitated body in order to
explore its potential (or lack of) sexuality, condition and
experience. Inner anxieties and body flaws are concealed through
obvious technical pretexts and aesthetic devices, only to be both
confounded and heightened through stylized elements of the bodies
perceived gore and exposure. This façade becomes...
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