Untitled: Pissing Photo
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Luster 290, mounted in custom frame. 38 cm x 53 cm. Edition of 3+AP. 1995-2022
Untitled: Pissing Photo is a photographic work derived from the video Untitled: Pissing from 1995. The video shows a crotch-shot of a man pissing his pants. The main theme is in relation to masculinity, and in a simple way the video mentions masculinity and sexuality without being phallocentric. The wetting itself is not only traumatic in relation to masculinity (something the little boy does and knows he is punished for,) or something that happens solely from fear; it is also a sign of arousal and excitement even in the confrontation with the trauma; to come (on one self), have an orgasm, and furthermore has a feminine metaphor in 'getting wet'. This leads the video also to raise questions in relation to the viewer of what is erotic or simply perverse.