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'Porn Collection' is a visual exploration of women in pornography manifested through a series of mixed-media and collage prints, appropriated from vintage Hustler magazines.
Engaging in a dialogue between physical and digital manipulation techniques, the work delves into the complexities of societal constructs surrounding the portrayal of women and the body within the realm of mainstream, androcentric pornography.
Through appropriating the imagery from magazines tailored for male consumption, Lauren reshapes, and deconstructs the narratives they perpetuate, abstracting the form and challenging the false narratives of sexual liberation, emancipating it from the confines of male desire.Offering a visual deconstruction of the typical pornographic image, Lauren reimagines women’s sexuality and women’s participation in porn as something unfamiliar, unexplored and unrepresented.
Porn Collection aims to provoke conversation, not only about pornography itself, but to reflect on the internal tension within feminist discourse during the ‘sex wars’ in the late 1970s. The work reintroduces the notion of agency, questioning whether it has been stripped through systemic exploitative practices in porn, or by anti-pornography feminist philosophy, disregarding sex work as an economic choice.
The artist encourages viewers to confront their own assumptions about agency, power, and pornography, encouraging a more nuanced discussion on the ways in which women's bodies are commodified, politicised, and consumed in contemporary society.
This project is not a critique of porn, nor is it an endorsement for unregulated androcentric pornography - it is an exploration of the ways that art can deconstruct, reimagine, and challenge the visual culture and narratives we inherit.
Engaging in a dialogue between physical and digital manipulation techniques, the work delves into the complexities of societal constructs surrounding the portrayal of women and the body within the realm of mainstream, androcentric pornography.
Through appropriating the imagery from magazines tailored for male consumption, Lauren reshapes, and deconstructs the narratives they perpetuate, abstracting the form and challenging the false narratives of sexual liberation, emancipating it from the confines of male desire.Offering a visual deconstruction of the typical pornographic image, Lauren reimagines women’s sexuality and women’s participation in porn as something unfamiliar, unexplored and unrepresented.
Porn Collection aims to provoke conversation, not only about pornography itself, but to reflect on the internal tension within feminist discourse during the ‘sex wars’ in the late 1970s. The work reintroduces the notion of agency, questioning whether it has been stripped through systemic exploitative practices in porn, or by anti-pornography feminist philosophy, disregarding sex work as an economic choice.
The artist encourages viewers to confront their own assumptions about agency, power, and pornography, encouraging a more nuanced discussion on the ways in which women's bodies are commodified, politicised, and consumed in contemporary society.
This project is not a critique of porn, nor is it an endorsement for unregulated androcentric pornography - it is an exploration of the ways that art can deconstruct, reimagine, and challenge the visual culture and narratives we inherit.