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The photographs of Michaela Göltl
(1966, Vienna, lives in Vienna and Berlin) who specialises on pictures irritating human habits of perception
show the upper part of a body whose physique is more likely male. Its attitude and muscles, emphasised by the
contrast of light and shadows, evoke associ- ations to a dancer.
Ribbons round the neck and the chest are identifiable as parts of the top of a bikini made of a sort of transparent
fabric with flower ornaments. This piece of clothing disturbs the classical image of a male body and provokes
doubts about the obvious categorisation. The picture gets a strange and ambi- guous look, especially because of
the unusual ma- terial of the bikini.
A bikini itself is a peculiar piece of clothing because it unveils and sexualises the female body instead of covering
it. In this series the transparent bikini on a male body points out this absurdity and questions the common moral
standards of our civilisation.
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