{"product_id":"lars-van-roosendaal-petrified-i","title":"Lars van Roosendaal \/ Conviction | Condemnation","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedium: Acrylic on canvas, mounted on stretcher frame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e50 × 70 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA golden, faceless young man stands tied and almost naked on a precarious path winding through a toxic, abyss-ridden hellscape. The body is naked except for underwear; the chains on his neck, hands, and feet anchor a visually translated shame into the rocky ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition addresses a field of tension between desire and threat, inner doubt and external condemnation. Cyclopean, phallic-looking morel growths function as double projection surfaces: they visualize foreign sexuality 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 – idolatrously exalted and at the same time a source of deep-seated insecurity within masculine sexuality. Condemnation explores the fear of being exposed to a public that reduces queer-read individuals to their sexuality. Bodiless, pointing fingers illustrate mechanisms of attribution, expectation, and control. The floating, omnipresent eyes illustrate a form of permanent visibility, fueled by lust, judgment, and social surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-perception is also negotiated: one's own desire, one's own flesh, one's own genitals. What constitute sexuality and body image in the mirror of others? The bondage serves as a metaphor for internalized power relations – for an alienated relationship to a body that is claimed by heteronormative social structures as well as by a phallocentric, over-sexualized gay culture. The work makes visible an experience of loss – an existential vulnerability in a world without reliable protection. It focuses on loneliness, projection, social harshness, and the fragile possibility of self-assertion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondemnation 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 external perception. The work, together with Connection and Contagion, forms a triptych – three states in the tension between closeness and distance, identity and dissolution, self-protection and contact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie Newman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58061402243404,"sku":null,"price":1600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8842\/0940\/files\/Bildschirmfoto2026-07-10um18.12.00_235f738c-7a07-4072-9a1c-b463428a52d0.png?v=1783851596","url":"https:\/\/www.galerie-newman.de\/en\/products\/lars-van-roosendaal-petrified-i","provider":"Galerie Newman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}