Pictura Gallery

Manmade

Sumo tokyo 08 252ph
Sumo tokyo 08 267ph
Toledano justin
Sumo 08 09ph
Mark Scully
Rachel Papo020
Like daddy
Kinsey 01
Kinsey 03
Kinsey 04
Kobermaier
Ho Phuc Ngon
Ilya Ukraine 2006
Hold Ukraine 2006
Games 2005
Daddy019 100x100
Ankoblge02
Black Eye
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Curatorial Statement

Manmade examines the formation of masculine identities and how they are actualized through the body. We look at the body as a recording device—a mirror that reflects our intentions back at us. Thus, these bodies are anything but accidental; they are constructed. The way we inhabit our bodies changes with age, and passes from naively subconscious youth through more delineated adult expressions of a masculine identity. Consciously or subconsciously, men are made.

Manmade | Artists


Michal Chelbin – The Black Eye

Samantha Contis – The Boys

Kathryn Obermaier – Body Builders

Rachel Papo – Desperately Perfect

Viktoria Sorochinski – Daddy

Phillip Toledano – A New Kind of Beauty

Jeffrey Wolin – Inconvenient Stories


Vintage prints courtesy of The Kinsey Institute

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