I like to get my Loving when I get it on my mind
Mat Collishaw, 2003

This is a folding screen fitted with plain translucent glass onto which the image of a proudly strutting peacock glows with its fanned tail filling the screen. Collishaw often explores the ambiguous relationship between the erotic and the pornographic in his work. A decorative screen may be seen to have a duality of purpose, offering privacy but also the tantalising possibility of exposure. The peacock, beautiful, strutting and assertive, highlights the ambiguities of seduction, of hide and seek, of power and of submission.
More information
Title of artwork, date
I like to get my Loving when I get it on my mind, 2003
Date supported
2005
Medium and material
Video & decorative screen
Dimensions
180 x 168 cm
Grant
5000
Total cost
16500

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