NEW SKIN

Deeply touched by Donna Haraway's writing, NEW SKIN is the Mayumi Hosokura's proposal for a new way of thinking about identity, body and desire. This is a single large-scale digital collage which Hosokura created from clippings from old magazines gay, statues and photographs she found, as well as her own photos - by deliberately choosing to use only images from male characters. Then cut into 12 separate elements, the fragments which result blur the boundaries between man and woman, between man and animal, between living and non-living beings; works hybrids that reimagine what it means to be human and disrupt the social conventions of desire. Drawing on feminist theory and the current technological innovations, NEW SKIN predicts what the body will be like the future in an era where digital and biotechnology technologies evolve.