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Disappointing Polaroid
In Disappointing Polaroid, Ferg Cooper once again enlarges a traditionally intimate format — the Polaroid — and overlays it with painted intervention. Here, a pig carcass rendered in acrylic brutally interrupts the nude male figure, equating the vulnerable queer body to raw meat. The handwritten text “Knew you’d end up disappointing me” deepens the tension between intimacy, objectification, and emotional disillusionment. This work challenges the gaze, desirability politics, and the commodification of queer bodies.
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In Disappointing Polaroid, Ferg Cooper once again enlarges a traditionally intimate format — the Polaroid — and overlays it with painted intervention. Here, a pig carcass rendered in acrylic brutally interrupts the nude male figure, equating the vulnerable queer body to raw meat. The handwritten text “Knew you’d end up disappointing me” deepens the tension between intimacy, objectification, and emotional disillusionment. This work challenges the gaze, desirability politics, and the commodification of queer bodies.
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