Duration of exhibition: 12th – 18th September 2022
Place of exhibition: N.eon Gallery, Crnogorska 10
Through photo and video media, visual artist Kosta Mushu explores the boundaries and relationships of physical and spiritual reality, as well as the influence of capitalism and cultural-family heritage on the development of personal and collective identity. The exhibition “The Gaze” was inspired by the enforced toxic standards of masculinity in the LGBTQI+ community, as well as the work of film critic and feminist Laura Mulvey, who claims that popular films and culture are based on satisfying male scopophilia. With a series of poetic erotic photographs, Kosta registers the tension between the objective and subjective view of the male nude, as well as the difference in the approach to the medium of the audience and the author in the case when the man is the main subject of the photograph of the nude, in which until now, the subject has mostly been the naked female body.


