Art
Artist Mikhael Subotzky strips down the meaning of white masculinity
The Joburg artist explores the contradiction between power and vulnerability in his latest exhibit, 'Massive Nerve Corpus'
07 July 2019 - 00:00
Mikhael Subotzky's latest exhibition opens with an image of a naked white man with a tennis racquet, about to serve. It's a scientific illustration of the "massive nerve corpus" of the exhibition title that he found in an encyclopaedia. He's scanned it and erased all the labels, leaving just the body in its vital, active pose...
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