Natalia LL is one of Poland’s most revered avant-garde artists, playing with critiques of consumer culture whilst exploring sexuality and gender. Using photography and film to illustrate small everyday actions such as eating, sleeping, copulation, resting and speaking, LL challenges the idea of art as something apart from reality.
In ‘Consumer Art’, LL mimics the style of pornographic films, the film features a group of models suggestively eating a variety of phallic shaped foods. Challenging the commodification of women’s bodies in porn, unlike the girls in pornos, these women retained a sense of agency through their confrontational stares.
What does the female gaze mean to you?
“It’s a powerful force that can change a lot.”