Dinos and Jake Chapman

FUCK FACE TWIN, 1995

Fibreglass, resin, and paint, 33 7/16 x 21 1/4 x 26 3/8 inches [85 x 54 x 67 cm]

Deste Foundation, Athens, Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Microbrewery and Bistro by the Singapore river

"Queer photography, indeed, these picture of an underworld or another world, an alternative past or future where identities as we know them have been burlesqued, cut up, and collaged anew in unusual, sometimes grotesque and frightening, sometimes beautiful combinations. I'll be Your Mirror [1972], Urs Luthi's cross-dressed self-portrait promises us, offering an image of ourselves we would not recognize, a double we would deny, like Nan Goldin's drag queens, Hanna Hoch's man-woman Tamer, or the masquerading self-portraits of Claude Cahun, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Cindy Sherman. Perhaps more disturbing still are Jurgen Klauke's cyborg bodies with penis nipples, or Dinos and Jake Chapman's " Siamese Twat....Fuckface Twin / Two-faced Cunt / Cunt-chops....zygotic acceleration, biogenetic de-sublimated libidinal model," child mannequin sculptures sprouting adult penises, anuses, and vaginas is surprising places, numbers, and combinations, along with extra heads, torsos, arms, and legs. Are these faces of desires from which our own [and perhaps their other] faces shield us, desires incompatible with gender - or race or class - as custom fixes them? What do we make of these queer beings - and what does that make of us?"

exerpt : Rose is a rose is a rose | Jennifer Blessing, Guggenheim Museum