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Ideas surrounding transformation are recurrent themes throughout my
work. I am fascinated in how temporal materials, including lighting,
makeup, and decoration can transform bodies, hallways and nightclub
into something strange or uncanny.
Through my work I create a visual image or object in disjunction with
quotidian representations of my subject: nightclubs are brightly light,
rather than dark and sexy; soap is wet and dirty, rather than fresh and
clean; unremarkable male bodies are superficially transformed into
hyper-masculine models.
There is an implication of queerness that plays an important role in
the reading of my work, not only as a suggestion of strangeness or
difference, but also in the work's relationship to sexual orientation.
Jesse Finley Reed
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