A second blog from DaaD vzw. A bit different in content.

Thursday 9 April 2015

Alva Bernadine


"Inappropriate Images"
Can porn ever be art?. If it is good porn do we rename it erotica to elevate it so we can usher it into polite society? ; Alva Bernadine wonders. Alva is a British photographer, his work is provocative to say the least. Saturated colors and surrealism are part of his overall work.
In the series "Inappropriate Images" he poses the question if pornography as art is possible, where do we draw the line between art and erotica? Alva Bernadine; "An explicit close-up of female genitals in a men’s magazine might be regarded as porn, while the same picture in a medical textbook would not." As times change, so does our perception of the nude in art and in our daily live. And Alva states; "Just like you can bring an everyday object into a museum and call it art, you can bring a pornographic image into a museum and call it art also.  The context in which it is placed gives it artistic virtue, so does that mean it is no longer pornography? Does it now become erotica, a polite and perhaps apologist word for the porn of yesteryear?"








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