Man, I was expecting to write a review of how Kern was the
master of soft-core porn, whose main backers were large box bookstores
purchasing damaged copies of his books that middle-aged, married men and pre-teens
flip through while clogging up the photo book section. But as the master of
soft-core porn, Kern’s show is almost art. The work is mostly pictures that I
first saw as gifs flicking between images of clothed young women and images of
the same women topless. The prints
in the show are the two images on top of each other. Not good art, but not titillating
enough that I would necessarily see it as soft-core porn. Maybe tumblr-porn?
There is another series of pictures that show young women who are naked or in
their underwear holding up the prescription drugs they are on for emotional
issues. Again, some sex but clearly Kern is trying to say something more then
just people like looking at naked people. I assume it’s about the over-medicating
of young people, but I just kept thinking there is probably a rather direct
relationship to the amount prescription a young woman is on and how likely she
might appear in a Richard Kern picture.
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