A bizarre and obscene sense of humour
October 20, 2024 2:41 AM Subscribe
The human body is almost always at the centre of artist Joyce Lee’s work, often transformed into psychedelic penis-shaped mushrooms or vulvic flowers exuding sticky pearls. These surreal metamorphoses move the viewer away from reality and into imaginary spaces, where desire and the body’s experience of pleasure are the main focus. Over-the-top sexuality is combined with visual gags to lend the images a bizarre and obscene sense of humour. The exaggerated campness of Lee’s work is joyful, mixing comedy with sex and working against the idea that art has to be serious. from Erotic nuns and pubic plaits: Inside Joyce Lee’s surreal, sensual world
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The subject matter doesn't interest me...been done before, but her technique and handling of the paint is rather masterful.
posted by Czjewel at 5:10 AM on October 20 [2 favorites]
posted by Czjewel at 5:10 AM on October 20 [2 favorites]
That's funny, we were just taking about r/ATBGE !
posted by lalochezia at 5:36 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
posted by lalochezia at 5:36 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
ah nuns with pierced tongues!
I really like this stuff a lot. she's playing (really playing) with some interesting juxtapositions and imagery.
posted by supermedusa at 9:02 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
I really like this stuff a lot. she's playing (really playing) with some interesting juxtapositions and imagery.
posted by supermedusa at 9:02 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
Sexualized nuns always bug me.
This is a group of women who have voluntarily chosen a celibate lifestyle, and intentionally dress in a very conservative fashion to avoid being objects of sexual interest, and our culture decides the natural thing to do is eroticize them.
It is disrespectful and speaks to something deeply wrong with our society that we can't apparently have any predominantly female social role we don't turn into fodder for objectification.
posted by pattern juggler at 9:39 AM on October 20 [4 favorites]
This is a group of women who have voluntarily chosen a celibate lifestyle, and intentionally dress in a very conservative fashion to avoid being objects of sexual interest, and our culture decides the natural thing to do is eroticize them.
It is disrespectful and speaks to something deeply wrong with our society that we can't apparently have any predominantly female social role we don't turn into fodder for objectification.
posted by pattern juggler at 9:39 AM on October 20 [4 favorites]
hmmm...I won't say your take is not valid pattern juggler, but as someone who was raised Catholic, I have always experienced a certain frisson with transgression (and I am a woman, who often finds the 24 hour objectification cycle quite tiresome). There is something there (a deeper exploration than just "let's objectify/sexualize these particular women) and I think this artist and others doing this sort of work are exploring that, maybe trying to understand their own feelings w/r/t a religious upbringing and whatnot.
Rebellion and transgression can be seen as immature and crude, but they are also tools for dismantling oppressive authoritarian dynamics.
posted by supermedusa at 9:55 AM on October 20 [4 favorites]
Rebellion and transgression can be seen as immature and crude, but they are also tools for dismantling oppressive authoritarian dynamics.
posted by supermedusa at 9:55 AM on October 20 [4 favorites]
Some of the images are interesting. Some are worrying.
I prefer the subtler transgressive images, like the bruised, rotten peach, or even the bruised knees, to the woman's buttocks in sheer panties with a hand shaped bruise on her thigh.
posted by Zumbador at 10:35 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
I prefer the subtler transgressive images, like the bruised, rotten peach, or even the bruised knees, to the woman's buttocks in sheer panties with a hand shaped bruise on her thigh.
posted by Zumbador at 10:35 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]
I grew up Catholic, had a lot of respect for the vocation and even had a a beloved late aunt who spent her adult life as a nun. I've also known some nuns who were pretty awful people. Even so, I kinda think "tools for dismantling oppressive authoritarian dynamics" are fine and dandy until the tables are turned, and the transgression/rebellion is aimed at my own preferred institutions. People using such justifications are often full of reasons why they should get a pass. Regardless, I don't think it's a bad thing to be considerate when releasing one's inner asshole on the world.
Nunsploitation itself has a pretty long history. Though sexualized nuns never did much for me. Whatever gets your rocks off, I guess.
posted by 2N2222 at 2:44 PM on October 20 [1 favorite]
Nunsploitation itself has a pretty long history. Though sexualized nuns never did much for me. Whatever gets your rocks off, I guess.
posted by 2N2222 at 2:44 PM on October 20 [1 favorite]
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there appears to be chocolate in the first image & chocolate tastes good, so?
posted by HearHere at 4:52 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]