Beth Kirby - Die Sexy
Die Sexy is a body of work created by Bristol based artist, Beth Kirby. This latest collection is an explorative fusion of Kirby’s fascination with erotic imagery, pre-internet 70’s and 80’s pornographic magazines and her own real, un-glamourised experience of modern womanhood.
We see Kirby reclaiming the overtly sexualised, often derogatory presentation of women, and challenging the archetypal narrative of the objectification of the female body, with her idiosyncratic style of tightly-cropped, skilfully draughted pencil and charcoal drawings. Daubed with contemporary slogans, she blurs the one dimensional quality of hyperrealism, creating a juxtaposition between the dated imagery and typography used in the initial paper-age of pornographic material, and the modern female condition.
The collection is neither to be viewed as pro or anti-pornographic but a personal, provocative and playful study of the female form through the lens of the modern female experience.
