MAYUMI HOSOKURA
NEW SKIN
Published by MACK Books
2020
Book size 30x30cm
Softcover
Language English
Deeply influenced by the writing of Donna Haraway, New Skin is Mayumi Hosokura's proposal for a new way of thinking about identity, the body and desire. Its origin is a single large-scale digital collage that Hosokura created using clippings from old gay magazines, statues and found selfies, along with her own photographs - specifically choosing to use images of male figures only. Then cut into 12 separate pieces, the resulting fragments blur the boundaries between male and female, human and animal, living and non-living; hybrid works that reinvent what it means to be human and subvert the social conventions of desire. Drawing on feminist theory and current technological innovations, New Skin anticipates the future of the body in an age of evolving digital and biological technologies.
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Deeply influenced by the writing of Donna Haraway, New Skin is Mayumi Hosokura’s proposal for a new way of thinking about identity, the body, and desire. Its origin is a single large-scale digital collage that Hosokura created using clippings from old gay magazines, statues, and found selfies, along with her own photographs—specifically choosing to use images of male figures only. Then cut into 12 separate pieces, the resulting fragments blur the boundaries between male and female, human and animal, living and nonliving; hybrid works that reimagine what it means to be human and disrupt social conventions of desire. Drawing on feminist theory and current technological innovations, New Skin anticipates the future of the body in an era of evolving digital and biological technologies.