Use Him
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
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use him. Soap sculpture installation 2013. Use him was a work that was intentionally, well, slippery. I hope to make use of the sculptures I produced for my B A degree show in 2012 and I'd envisioned making a video of my soap and wax casts being used, washed away or melted whilst I was studying and working at Goldsmiths. Almost a year later, it occurred to me that I finally had the perfect circumstances to mount the project. I decided to put my soap man into one of the female toilets and see if anyone would use him. It was about the usual things feminism, objectification looking function. But I wanted it to be fun. It was simple on I hoped it would be effective. However, I worry that it would be too simple and be seen as too literal, too obvious. Still, I wanted to do it that way in public, but in private, with the willing or unwilling participation of the women using the lavatory. The participate every aspect would make his waist is more meaningful than if I had filmed him on my own. Also, it would raise a debate over exclusion on the female days, the male students and members of staff were only allowed to view the photographs that were exhibited in the gallery space. It may have been an entirely new experience for them to be excluded from such an event by their gender. But I hadn't expected was the vocal reactions he provoked. I wandered into the strangest conversations in the toilets. Most people spoke freely to whoever was nearby, and as they didn't know that I had made him and put him there, I was able to find out what they really thought about my work. Unsurprisingly, some women hated him.