{"product_id":"lars-van-roosendaal-alien-ii","title":"Lars van Roosendaal \/ Verurteilung | Condemnation","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Acrylic on canvas, mounted on stretcher frame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e70 × 100 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA golden, faceless young man stands bound and almost bare on a brittle path winding through a toxic hell-landscape shot through with chasms. The body is naked but for a pair of briefs; the bonds at his neck, hands and feet anchor a visually translated shame in the rocky ground.\u003cbr\u003eThe composition explores a field of tension between desire and threat, inner doubt and outward condemnation. Cyclopean, phallic-looking morel growths act as double projection surfaces: they visualise the sexuality of others on the one hand, and the perception of one’s own body on the other. The oversized phallus is staged as a symbol of power, desire and exclusion – idolised and at the same time a source of deep-seated insecurity within masculine sexuality.\u003cbr\u003eVerurteilung \/ Condemnation examines the fear of being exposed to a public that reduces queer-read people to their sexuality. Bodiless, pointing fingers illustrate mechanisms of attribution, expectation and control. The floating, omnipresent eyes make visible a form of permanent visibility, fed by desire, judgement and social surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelf-perception is negotiated here too: one’s own desire, one’s own flesh, one’s own genitals. What constitutes sexuality and body image in the mirror of others? The bondage serves as a metaphor for internalised relations of violence – for an alienated relationship to a body claimed by heteronormative social structures as much as by a phallocentric, oversexualised gay culture.\u003cbr\u003eThe work makes an experience of lostness visible – an existential exposure in a world without any reliable place of safety. It puts loneliness, projection, social harshness and the fragile possibility of self-assertion at the centre of the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerurteilung \/ Condemnation is not to be understood as an expression of individual weakness, but as a precise visual analysis of structural power relations – between norm and deviation, self-image and outside perception.\u003cbr\u003eTogether with Verbindung \/ Connection and Verbreitung \/ Contagion the work forms a triptych – three states in the field of tension between closeness and distance, identity and dissolution, self-protection and contact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie Newman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59114584965452,"sku":null,"price":1780.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8842\/0940\/files\/AlienII.webp?v=1791456568","url":"https:\/\/www.galerie-newman.de\/en\/products\/lars-van-roosendaal-alien-ii","provider":"Galerie Newman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}