X ray inversion bite
So excited to be sharing these x-rays again - for the first time in over 20 years. Robin Forster and I created them back in 1992, and they have just been beautifully restored by conservators.
These were exhibited in several high profile venues, including the National Gallery of Australia’s ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also created an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and #LGBTQ film festivals.
We created the x-ray series of erotic encounters between men at a harrowing time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak and AIDS was considered by many to be an inevitable “punishment” for our lifestyles as gay men. In response we wanted our x-rays to picture a mocking carnival of anonymous skeletons lost in hedonistic pleasure. But we hope the beautiful smokiness of the x-rays also conveys a feel of tender eroticism, intimacy and love between men in the midst of the epidemic.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and even completed an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
More x-rays to be posted soon, but in the meanwhile you can see the full set at www.barrett-forster.com
X ray inversion bite
So excited to be sharing these x-rays again - for the first time in over 20 years. Robin Forster and I created them back in 1992, and they have just been beautifully restored by conservators.
These were exhibited in several high profile venues, including the National Gallery of Australia’s ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also created an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and #LGBTQ film festivals.
We created the x-ray series of erotic encounters between men at a harrowing time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak and AIDS was considered by many to be an inevitable “punishment” for our lifestyles as gay men. In response we wanted our x-rays to picture a mocking carnival of anonymous skeletons lost in hedonistic pleasure. But we hope the beautiful smokiness of the x-rays also conveys a feel of tender eroticism, intimacy and love between men in the midst of the epidemic.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and even completed an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
More x-rays to be posted soon, but in the meanwhile you can see the full set at www.barrett-forster.com