Sonja Yakovleva

Editor(s)

Robert Grunenberg

Author(s)

Oliver Koerner von Gustorf

Design

OOR Studio, Berlin; Vladimir Llovet

Size

15 x 21 cm

Cover

Softcover

Pages

44

Illustrations

28

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-96912-135-1

Sonja Yakovleva (b. Potsdam, 1989; lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) uses pornographic representations and images from the internet as templates for papercuts, some in large formats, that grapple with personal and public stories about women, power relations, sexuality, and violence. The silhouettes show popular motifs that have served to ingrain fairy tales, myths, and ideologies in the collective consciousness from the colonial era to modernism and the early twenty-first century. Yakovleva, whose art is often associated with sex-positive feminism, appropriates this folkloristic visual idiom and hybridizes and sexualizes it. Dessous and strap-on dildos, for example, figure as preserved specimens of butterflies and insects, bringing historic scientific expeditions to mind. Yet her work also addresses the capitalist urge to categorize, evaluate, and market every kink.

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