FLACCID

BENITA DASS-GRASSE

1 to 23 March 2019

Men send me unsolicited dick pics. I'm not really okay with this. I want to change the purpose and meaning of these images through drawing and collage; shifting their sexual intention into something comic and grotesque, because bodies and sex are inherently both of these things.

Common features of the unsolicited dick pic: not including the face, poor composition and image quality, bad lighting, and always an erect penis. I don't find these images sexually inspiring, but rather humorous and mildly disturbing. They always seem incomplete - careless and conceptually a little flaccid.

In order to make these images appear more finished and capture my interest, I will create collages by drawing and cutting into them: removing, replacing and adding elements. These men will be given faces, and things to do, and their penises will be utilised more creatively.