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Soft Core
Invisible-Exports is pleased to present 鈥淪oft Core,鈥� a bifocal group show arranged around soft sculpture and its not entirely semantic relationship to softcore imagery.
What鈥檚 the quiddity of softness鈥攚hat quality is shared by materials that give to the touch, images out of focus, pornography that doesn鈥檛 show penetration, intimate composition, colors on the bluer end of the spectrum, plush luxury, empathy and unprocessed romanticism, as in 鈥渟oft-focus鈥�? What makes soft soft?
鈥淪oft Core鈥� was conceived and curated to explore bodiliness as the mercurial element of form underlying softness of all kinds鈥攁 quality which endows work with a shape-shifting, sensual flesh-like materiality that can both exceed, and be hemmed in by, composition. Even in work which does not depict flesh or fleshliness in any explicit way, softness of form invariably produces a bodily effect or experience in encountering the work; even softcore pornographic imagery paradoxically more 鈥榖odily,鈥� more fleshly and inviting, than often-mechanical hard-core material.
The exhibition highlights three-dimensional sculpture featuring soft materials and two-dimension wall-based work built from softcore imagery, or pornographic imagery altered so as to render it 鈥渟oft.鈥� The juxtaposition blurs the line that separates abstract materiality and semi-explicit imagery, where the softness begins to feel sensual, and the sexual can almost be truly felt.
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Invisible-Exports is pleased to present 鈥淪oft Core,鈥� a bifocal group show arranged around soft sculpture and its not entirely semantic relationship to softcore imagery.
What鈥檚 the quiddity of softness鈥攚hat quality is shared by materials that give to the touch, images out of focus, pornography that doesn鈥檛 show penetration, intimate composition, colors on the bluer end of the spectrum, plush luxury, empathy and unprocessed romanticism, as in 鈥渟oft-focus鈥�? What makes soft soft?
鈥淪oft Core鈥� was conceived and curated to explore bodiliness as the mercurial element of form underlying softness of all kinds鈥攁 quality which endows work with a shape-shifting, sensual flesh-like materiality that can both exceed, and be hemmed in by, composition. Even in work which does not depict flesh or fleshliness in any explicit way, softness of form invariably produces a bodily effect or experience in encountering the work; even softcore pornographic imagery paradoxically more 鈥榖odily,鈥� more fleshly and inviting, than often-mechanical hard-core material.
The exhibition highlights three-dimensional sculpture featuring soft materials and two-dimension wall-based work built from softcore imagery, or pornographic imagery altered so as to render it 鈥渟oft.鈥� The juxtaposition blurs the line that separates abstract materiality and semi-explicit imagery, where the softness begins to feel sensual, and the sexual can almost be truly felt.
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