With a background in performance, choreography and contemporary dance, Swedish / British multidiscipilinary artist AdeY’s photographic works study subjects such as the human body’s balance, strength and physics. Here they photograph and portray the body in its purest form – bare, undressed and naked. The work seeks to create a non-sexualised and open-minded representation of humankind, which is based on a dream of acceptance.
A focus and attention to people’s right to differences drives the artist’s images, and here it is especially the differences that are about physics, gender, race and sexuality. With a humorous and experimental approach, they seek to highlight our vulnerability, loneliness, and strengths, whilst capturing those little moments of social oppression, isolation, anxiety, and depression that appear to play a central role in the human condition. In practice, it is in many ways the perception of the body that is being challenged by the artist, based on their own background and experience of the human body, but it is also to a greater extent the perception of the viewer and the outside world, which is central to their artistic voice.
9 January – 5 February 2021
AdeY / BOYS WILL BE BOYS on BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
BOYS WILL BE BOYS by AdeY is online now on The Little Black Gallery’s new online platform BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! until 5 February at www.boysboysboys.org
