The Power of Gaze is a questioning of your own and others‘ image of women in relation to the male gaze. The publication comprises over a hundred overpaintings of print media. Print media such as A pictorial History of Striptease by Richard Wortly (1976) and The Complete Collection of Nudist by Gerhard Theewen (Salon 1982) form the starting point by combining staging and erotic photography.

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The Power of Gaze shows calculated stagings that oscillate between illustration and abstraction, metaphor and allegory. It shows images that arouse through their eroticism. Partly vulnerable, partly phallic, partly ironic, partly playful, partly through their inherent violence. Individual bodies merge into each other, sexual characteristics are erased or overdrawn. Selectively or as a whole, you reacts to the given. Censorship dominates as a stylistic device. The Power of Gaze seems staged, aesthetic and yet frighteningly close.

Amsel Verlag

ISBN 978-3-906325-63-7