'After the 0rgy', Comissioned Installation for Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion Barbican Art Gallery
After The Orgy
A visualisation of Baudrillard's Transparency of Evil, Part 1 titled 'After the Orgy'.
"Now everything has been liberated, the chips are down, and we find ourselves faced collectively with the big question: WHAT DO WE DO NOW THE ORGY IS OVER?
Now all we can do is simulate the orgy, simulate liberation."
The notion of this chapter is that in modern society, liberated as we have become, everything feels as without weight, without a shadow. A sort of simulation. A state of post orgy; a state of post liberation.
With this, we create the 2025 bog bodies in the image of the modern world’s weightlessness remaining only as a shell of themselves, the clothes they wear. Standing in contrast to the traditional nordic bog findings, where all that remains is the organic body.
The installation engages in an orgy, a state of seeking liberation and relief, but being asomatic in its modern existence, it is stripped from the weight of substance and feeling.
Positioned this way, the modern day bog body, existing exclusively in its own reference, forever simulates the sexual act it once engaged truthfully in.