Does The Royal Family Like Pornography
(Solo Exhibition)
19 November - 13 December, 2007
The show continues themes of misogyny, status, aesthetics, and desire from his "Beauty Show" at V22 Gallery London in 2008, where he showed painting of 80's lingerie models with paintings of Himmler.
Pornog raphy is everywhere and Joffe ponders whether it is now enjoyed in the highest echelons of society. The Queen, Prince Philip, and their heirs may now be the carefree consumers of an endless stream of hardcore porn. The porn images on show are all drawn from free mainstream websites with guaranteed over 18 models. Joffe signs the paintings with the site from which they have been generously donated. The paintings are billboard size confronting the viewer, whether royal or commoner, with porn outside the intimacy of his/her computer screen. The dignity, properness, and clothedness of Royalty are contrasted with the women in pornography, stripped, penetrated, and covered in semen. The absurdity of the juxtaposition marks Joffe's uncertainty about the subject matter, throwing the viewer off course, and out of their indifference to paintings of porn. |
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Queen Doe 2008. Oil on canvas, 237 x 195 cm |
2010 Sartorial Contemporary Art