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Follow-up exhibition to WARning, reviewed by the New York Times' Ken Johnson.
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Solo exhibition at Axis Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan.
Read →Clinton Fein's Annoy.com
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called it obscene and illegal; renowned artist Lynda Benglis dubbed it "Press Art."
Read →Official Artificial Art
All these images have been designed by AI and me, with very deliberate prompts for highly specific outputs.
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Clinton Fein's latest exhibition, Torture, which opened at Toomey Tourell Gallery in San Francisco in January 2007, is a shocking and defiant exploration of America's approach to torture under the Bush administration. A series of staged and digitally manipulated photographic images recreate the infamous torture scenes from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, transforming the diffuse, muted and low-resolution images into large-scale, vivid, powerful and frightening reproductions. Fein focuses on the choreography and sexualization of torture, which includes images of prisoners stripped naked, wearing hoods or sandbags as they're forced to stand in excruciatingly uncomfortable positions, simulate sexually degrading acts, be plastered with feces and be subject to egregious humiliation. In spite of the horror, the images, stylized with fashion-photography lighting, radiate a profound beauty and eroticism that is all at once seductive, disturbing and unsettling.
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