Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sex Positive Art Comes to Main Street
filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Melissa Gira
Actually, Market Street, not Main, but in San Francisco, that is our main drag. So cheers to Tina Butcher (aka the bondage queen next door, Madison Young), owner and curator of the boundary-bursting feminist, sex-positive gallery Femina Potens, which has just signed a lease to take over a very prominent spot in San Francisco, which so blessedly happens to be the former home of leather shop, Image Leather.
Just a taste of the collision of art & porn with more to come [via] :
Imagine walking into an art gallery with a big fluffy, white mattress smack in the middle of the room. A thick red velvet rope and a scattering of “do not touch” signs surround the mattress. A few fellow art patrons shuffle around, regarding the works on the wall with thoughtful gazes. The wall text for the mattress reads “Sex.” The materials listed are “mattress, bodily fluids, naked bodies,” creation date: “NOW.” You have just entered the most recent sexual fantasy of Madison Young, San Francisco bondage and fetish model and, obviously, an exhibitionist.
Young sits in an old-school green and metal office chair in the office space of her art gallery Femina Potens. Fully clothed in a simple black dress with a soft baby pink cardigan, her cascading red hair glints in the late afternoon sun, her chair squeaks as she leans forward, excitedly describing a recent film shoot in which Young has sex in an art gallery. Her idea was to act out, in a public arena, the intensity and desire of new lovers in the very first week of a relationship.
“I wanted to show that point when you’re starving for each other. When you hardly get out of bed, falling asleep after fucking, only to wake up to fucking once again,” says Young.
Damn, is it a miracle to have sexy queer culture continue within those walls. And on them. And on the floors. And.
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