ZED NELSON – LOVE ME
2012-05-28The exhibition explores a new form of globalisation, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand. Whilst Nelson’s subjects appear willing participants in an omnipresent culture of bodily improvement, they might equally be considered hapless victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into an insatiable craving for approval.As the subject’s frailties and pretensions are exposed, so too are we the viewer: our motives for looking, for inspecting, along with uncomfortable reminders of our own vanities and insecurities.
Exhibition runs through till June 24th, 2012
DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5T
