Exhibition
BODY COPY by Mitchell Moreno
10 Sep 2021 – 15 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- First Floor, Brixton Recreation Centre
- 27 Brixton Station Road
- London
England - SW9 8QQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Brixton
- Brixton
Photofusion presents the first UK exhibition of BODY COPY, a photo-text series by Mitchell Moreno exploring the performance of masculinities through the discourse of online dating.
About
In the words of RuPaul, “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag”. Nowhere is this clearer than on men-for-men dating apps - a world awash with geeks, leather daddies, jocks, businessmen, bears, skinheads and twinks.
In BODY COPY, artist Mitchell Moreno takes adverts found on these apps and tries to construct ‘ideal’ responses to them. The resulting self-portraits are at once rich, humorous, and unsettling.
Begun by Moreno while in recovery from body dysmorphic disorder, the series moves beyond the therapeutic to explore how queer masculinities are performative, codified, and unstable constructions, rooted in material and digital cultures.
This is the UK premier of BODY COPY following exhibitions at Ballarat International Foto Biennale (Australia), Copenhagen Photo Festival (Denmark), Singapore International Photography Festival, and Encontros da Imagem (Portugal).
