Sorry if this is disgusting, but surrealism is interesting. ...The toes are isolated from their bodies, fragmented, enlarged, staged and dramatised. The magnified, blown-up toes seem impossibly real: ugly, hairy, genital-like. We are literally put face to face with their excessive and nauseous reality. The photographs are cropped, the angle imposes a violent deformation on the toe – they are upside down, brought down if such an operation were possible. It is a portrait that transgresses and subverts the very idea of what a portrait should be: the highest and most noble part of the body has been thrown away and transformed into a grotesque, absurd and scandalous ‘other face.... The framing of the toe is an act of violence set against the human figure... taken from Jacques-André Boiffards ‘Big Toes
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:23:55 +0000
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