AJ Bravo
[artist & scholar]
AJ Bravo (b.1993) is a London-based femme artist and scholar from Bilbao, Spain. Working with a variety of mediums, including photography, film, painting and mixed-media sculpture, her work is informed by her experience as a sex worker and research on pornography and aesthetics. Their painting practice using oil paint presents close ups of self-pleasure and arousal, equally questioning the relationship of art and pornography. Trained in illustration at Falmouth University, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Art & Philosophy at the University of Kent examining the relationship between censorship, sex-workers’ rights, the impact of FOSTA/SESTA and pornography.
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purity & danger
Curated by Mathilde Friis
25th of October - 19th of November
Guts Projects
Unit 2 Sidings House,
10 Andre Street,
London, E8 2AA
While art and sex are often shaped by similar forces of commodification and labour, they are typically viewed as opposites or confronted, with one regarded as sacred and the other as taboo. However, expressions of sexuality and creativity have long been deeply intertwined. This exhibition explores that connection, presenting a selection of works that reimagine notions of purity and danger, embracing fluidity and openness as essential facets of the human experience.
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working girls!
Curated by Mathilde Friis
26th of july - 11th of august
The artists in this exhibition explore various aspects of the sex industry in their work, including fetishisation, gender and sexuality, kink, desire, fantasy, community, and friendship. Their artistic practices span multiple mediums, from textile, and photography, to painting and film.