BOYZ
Pippi Nola
9/7/21 - 31/7/21
Attempting to neutralise the patriarchy with the tools it imbedded in me; my hotness, my ability to stare absently at men until they shut up. Channeling desire, performance, my immediate instinct to NOT give a fuck. There’s an inherent toxicity to men which I think I find quite alluring sometimes and as opposed to pushing against it, maybe leaning into it dismantles that power too?
There’s this idea that John Berger brings up in ‘Ways of Seeing’; he claims the male gaze is not just inherent to the way the world perceives women but also has been internalized by women and is inherent to the way they see themselves. A woman is never not aware of herself. It takes two to tango, to play the game, but there can only be one best dressed, and it’s always me, or the guy with the True Religion’s on. I want to talk to him. My practice is an insight on how my rules of attraction works. The molecular bond that forms in your body when you inhale a boy's smell. What’s more deep than that?
My paintings are best looked at as screenshots. The camera roll is the window to the soul. Figure it out.
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