'Contenders', 1995 (selected images)

The body of the Boxer is a contested site. Each sectioned area designed and shaped for maximum power. Each area zoned for target points. This work explores ideas about the spectacular gladiatorial body, honed to an idealised state through hours of lavished attention, and then tested by three rounds of ritual sporting battery. ‘Before-and-after’ body building advertisements from boxing magazines comment on the manufacture of the perfect masculine body. 3D objects depict the detailed work of the boxers corner, the trainers paraphernalia of Vaseline, sponge, ice, gum shield, scissors, sit together with images of the before-and-after results of the fight on the boxers fight face. 

Silver prints, colour prints, size various.  3D objects 
Part of  Institute of International Art (iniVA) 'Boxer' exhibition 1995   http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/1995/boxer

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