JUERGEN TELLER & XIANG JING
2015-05-04Works by Juergen Teller (b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany) and Xiang Jing (b. 1968, Beijing, China), juxtapose and subsequently explore disparate expressions of desire. While Teller’s photographs are laden with overt references to human sexuality and desire, Xiang Jing strips such notions from her sculptures of female bodies.
In Teller’s photographs of chef Antonio Guida’s extravagant menu at Hotel Il Pellicano on the Tuscan coast in Porto Ercole, Italy, the glistening, candy-colored dishes conjure a level of fetishized decadence bordering on the grotesque.
Xiang Jing’s approach to her hyper-realistic sculptures of nude female figures presents a way for her to circumvent the traditional notions of the male gaze that construes a woman’s body as an object of desire. The nude and often hairless figures rendered in fiberglass or marble are stripped of the overtly sexualized markers of the female form, and are personally representative, for the artist, of a pure, virginal state of being that is unaffected by patriarchal constructions.
Opposite – Food No.23, Hotel Il Pellicano 2010, 2010
Exhibition runs from May 21st to June 27th, 2015
Lehmann Maupin
407 Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central, Hong Kong
