Bruce Monroe 2011
Most of my current work represents my exploration of the AIDS virus, its pathology, and how homoeroticism can be related to it. I am fascinated with the seductive beauty of the viral structure, knowing that it causes disease and death by violating the very DNA of the body. I present the virus as a beautiful object in unexpected compositions, often erotic and sometimes humorous. I hope my work will begin to draw new attention to a disease that has grown stale in the media and the minds of gay youth. More importantly, I want to create work that pulls back the curtain on risky practices that are contributing to the rise in HIV rates in gay men today. Much of my other work celebrates many of the desires, fantasies, and fetishes within gay sexuality. Perhaps as a rejection of today's fear of gay assimilation in the larger culture? Eventually, these may be intertwined with the AIDS imagery to explore the physical, social, and financial consequences of flirtation with the virus.
Most of my current work represents my exploration of the AIDS virus, its pathology, and how homoeroticism can be related to it. I am fascinated with the seductive beauty of the viral structure, knowing that it causes disease and death by violating the very DNA of the body. I present the virus as a beautiful object in unexpected compositions, often erotic and sometimes humorous. I hope my work will begin to draw new attention to a disease that has grown stale in the media and the minds of gay youth. More importantly, I want to create work that pulls back the curtain on risky practices that are contributing to the rise in HIV rates in gay men today. Much of my other work celebrates many of the desires, fantasies, and fetishes within gay sexuality. Perhaps as a rejection of today's fear of gay assimilation in the larger culture? Eventually, these may be intertwined with the AIDS imagery to explore the physical, social, and financial consequences of flirtation with the virus.
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