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The pleasure principle

an exhibition commissioned by Pornhub

This September, Maccarone Los Angeles presents ‘The Pleasure Principle,’ a
pan-generational, sexually-charged exhibition of female artists whose work
centers the erotic and disrupts the processes of content-cleansing that code
certain images as profane, abject, or pornographic. Through a variety of
mediums, these artists unravel social constructions of pleasure, pointing to
the tension between that which is felt and that which is performed – between
sexuality and sexiness. ‘The Pleasure Principle’ dismantles the art/porn
binary, positing arousal as a universal goal, transcending boundaries that
separate the sexual from the aesthetic, the surreal from the sensible, the
occult from the mainstream.

Artists include

  • Louise Bourgeois
  • Delia Brown
  • Kathe Burkhart
  • Nao Bustamante
  • Cameron
  • Lynda Benglis
  • Martha Edelheit
  • Mary Beth Edelson
  • Tracey Emin
  • Karen Finley
  • Anita Steckel
  • Annie Sprinkle
  • Trulee Hall
  • Ann Hirsch
  • Doris Wishman
  • Bunny Yeager
  • Renee Cox
  • Narcissister

The exhibit opens September 21st at Maccarone Los Angeles,
located at 300 South Mission Road Los Angeles, CA 90033

Map

For more information and opening hours,
please visit maccarone.net