Alexis Hunter

Sexual Warfare, 197559 x 49cmPrice on Request

Details

Material

1 panel 18 colour photographs vintage

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This photographic artwork presents a grid-like composition of various human hands engaged in diverse activities. The color palette is predominantly warm tones, with accents of red, pink, and purple. The overall visual style evokes a sense of intimacy, vulnerability, and the complexities of human interaction. The work appears to explore themes of identity, consumerism, and the fragmented human experience in contemporary society. The artist's intention may be to provoke contemplation on the multifaceted nature of the human condition and the interconnectedness of our daily lives. ...

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Artist

Alexis Hunter

B.1948, New Zealand

Alexis Hunter used photography as a means of weaponizing feminist theory, critiquing and subverting the objectification of the female body and radically reappropriating it as a site for political activism. Hunter often depicted male bodies in the same manner as sexist depictions of women in advertising and media in the 1970s, and pioneered a technique of photographic sequential narrative, using photographs and text to make radical, provocative storyboards. Through gender roleplay and the use of fetishised objects as props, Hunter disrupted normative, entrenched dynamics of power and challenged the exploitation of gender stereotypes aimed at generating profit, a symptom of consumer capitalism. As well as displaying a legacy of radical feminism and its evolutions, viewing Hunter’s work today shows the artist’s anger, bravery and innovation in the face of a misogynistic society. ...