Marialba Russo: Public Sex Betty Tompkins consider how the last savior

consider how the last savior went out

which is being sold in honour of the 25th anniversary of this seminal project being produced for the ICA

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which somehow – appear to make the horse seem even more remarkable and mysterious then before

Marialba Russo: Public Sex Betty Tompkins consider how the last saviorNero, 2021, softcover, 168 pages, 15 x 18 cm Naples, late Seventies. On the citys streets scandalous, indecent posters suddenly appeared, and then quickly disappeared, replaced by new images. They only lasted two years before being censored. The posters were taken from porn movies, with bodies of naked, obscene, tempting women. Their focus, however, was not only womens bodies but also (and mostly) male desire and those years dominant macho imagery.