Friday, March 19, 2010

Pornsaints Exhibition


Pornsaints Exhibition #4 at the Birdhouse Gallery (1304 E. Cesar Chavez; Austin, TX) from March 28th-April 17th. There will be an opening and closing from 6-10pm on those days.










Painting, drawing, mixed-media photography and film works by Naomi Arton, B-9, Francesco D' Isa, Jeff Faerber, Katelan Foisy, Michael Forbes, Aunia Kahn, Zoe Lacchei, Steven Leyba, Danny Malbeouf, Robert Morris, Van Rijn, Natalie Shau, Ellen Stagg, Pamela Tait, Andrew Tong, Nathalie Winans and Kris Wlodarski.

Artworks are based upon the idea that porn stars may be "sanctified" by their performances. Pornsaints is an artistic approach to porn, a pornographic approach to art, a pornoartistic approach to religion.

The Porn Church is the art side of porn and the porn side of art. It's a porn-art community, a new wave from internet's gutters, raising to consecrate underground stars. Art needs something naughty, porn need something classy, and here we are.

As D'Isa wrote in his essay "Pornsaints - a brief essay about pornography and transcendence", the definition of a Pornsaint is inspired by many religious concepts and beliefs. It's closer to Mystic and Oriental definitions (Taoism most of all) more than Christian. If God is the most unreachable concept, the saint, being closer to God, renounces human features and identity. A cool separation from the world, like an extreme behavior, is one way to overstep humanity. "...the pornsaint dwells in the house of the saints, but got there traveling a different way, and came in knocking at another door."

We are the Porn Church and we make the Porn Culture. Everything classy is welcome at pornsaints.org - vulgarity included.

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