/ Halle at Berghain, Berlin : 2024 /
/ Sandstone 3d-print lacquered : concrete /
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Eggplants
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Eggplants translates unsolicited explicit pictures through digital processes into a series of physical sculptures. The project explores the dynamics of digital and physical gay cruising spaces, conceptualizing them as potential landscapes for negotiating (queer) masculinity, with a specific focus on the perspective of trans-masc individuals.
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The presence of explicit images on gay dating apps like Grindr resonates and associates with images well known from urban environments navigated every day. Public spaces are canvases for phallic symbols in the form of graffiti, tags like “penis” or countless other visual representations attest to abundant phallogocentric thinking in mainstream and subculture.
Over time, I have created a private database of unsolicited explicit images. These images are transformed using a script and converted into individual abstract 3D shapes appearing like glitches translated into physical space.
Each sculpture created in this way has its own characteristics and yet cannot be traced back to its original source. The sheer quantity of these sculptures ensures their collective anonymity and challenges the original sense of individuality associated with sharing explicit images.