Objet du désir
(2006) 1:30 min.
In the original 9-channel installation, Objets du désir, male masturbation takes the form of an assortment of playful quotidian objects simultaneously caressed by the female hand. Extracted from this installation, in Objet du désir, #8, a specifically female hand enters into this act with a plastic red Pan Am blow-up jet. The viewer must complete the picture in order to realize that the phallic toy may also function as an extension of the female body that performs the action or as that of the viewer's own body positioned in front of the screen. The idea of the art object as a fetish and how this comes to play between the artist/gallerist or art object/collector are also evoked.
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