Mayumi Hosokura
New Skin
Published by MACK Books, 2020
Size: 30x30cm
Softcover
Languages: 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 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.