WET PAINT. Studio Prokopiou
390,00 zł
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The book “Wet Paint” published by Sun Archive is Studio Prokopiou’s attempt to reckon with their Greek heritage – in a typically ambiguous way. BWA Wrocław is a partner of this publication.
Looking at the pictures by Panagiotis Poimenidis and Phillip Prokopiou, we don’t know whether the portraits of deities are a joke of the ancient world or a tribute to it. The intensity of the staging and the “vulgar” colors of the paints used to paint the models’ bodies are both historically appropriate and iconoclastic. Prokopiou Studio’s photographs are hyper-realistic and hyper-exaggerated – reality piles up and multiplies so much that it becomes myth. A key aspect of Studio Prokopiou’s practice is the construction of ephemeral situations and events which, in effect, are the duo’s “real” artistic work. This makes the photographs presented in the book a documentation of a performative, ephemeral situation – its sweet side effect.
Those who prefer order, predictability and feel discomfort when met with ambiguity, may feel confusion toward the operatic photographs that are ostentatiously bright and garish, playing with BDSM toys, pop culture, and mythology. And the questions that such viewers ask themselves will probably go unanswered. Called the third great sensibility in art history (after classicism and avant-garde), camp-like humor – is characterized by arbitrariness. It is like a joke: its limits are undefined: some will laugh, others will not.
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