Styles
9 September 2022
At a time when sex education is taking place on social networks and feminism is campaigning for new representations of the body, the erotic imagination is evolving. More poetic, playful and inclusive, the codes of sexuality interest creative people. Scenographers, photographers, designers and even foodistas are overplaying the lexicon of sensuality with flowers as well as fruits, plays on materials and affriending allusions.
These visual allusions are particularly popular on Valentine’s Day, but they will become part of the creative landscape in the long term. Discoveries without modesty or reserve.
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Mood
Sassy
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Toy
Sextoy
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Emoji
Eggplant
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Bakery
Katsu
Subtle and suggestive pictures
Food Porn » (literally) is creeping into the work of creatives: set designers, photographers and creative agencies – F61 Work Room, Victoria Shapow, Suzanne Saroff, Daantje Bons – play with the suggestive properties of food to create obscene iconographies. If they are purely innocent when each element is taken on its own, they drip with erotic allusions when they are subtly staged and photographed.
more and more design sex toys
Dildos and vibrators are becoming as beautiful, neat and sophisticated as any everyday object. Dame or Amorelie brands create minimalist sex toys that look like design or decorative pieces. There is also Undbound and its glamorous stainless steel vibrating rings that completely conceal their use and reinvent the sextoy panorama in depth.
Illustrators just as inspired
Even design is eroticised
Hanging lamps with large links at Trueing, phallic table lamps at Axel Chay, stone sculptures that offer themselves a kiss at French Cliché… The quest for eroticism initiated in the 70s by postmodern artists evolves towards sexual aesthetics, sometimes bordering on masochism, in contemporary design. A link with the intimate and the raw beauty decomplexed.
In this daring register, the Chapelle XIV – a Parisian gallery dedicated to contemporary arts – presented in early 2021 its Erotish exhibition, a digest of design objects and photographs staged in an orgiastic installation, retranscribed in the form of a book published by Art Paper Editions.
