I don’t like the Kienholz exhibition.
I dont like the kienholz-exhibition , a reminescence to a gentrified area,
where “whores” become a part of a tourist freak & folk show.
The exhibition is a typical one dimensional idealistic kitsch reflection
of sexworkers life, the dolls should look “like humans” (citation
catalogue) . Redlight-Imaginatio ns by almost all artists of the centuries
were a result of being part of a freak show because they were loners,
depressed and tend to solidarise with so called deviants. Usually it
reflects the artist loneliness, self-complaint why life is so unfair and
projections, reasons why artists (and philosophers) feel usually so
familiar with sex workers, the only women affordable for him during their
time. The artist & the muse, the artist & the whore, all male phantasies,
mixed up with a flair of romance & kitsch.
its kitsch not art, wet dreams of middle-class hypocrats who are going to
criminalise sexwork at the same time (the policy and crime bill is in the
last step of the legislation) and gentrify soho like amsterdam.
