Art & Sex: Leah Emery

Leah Emery appropriates pornographic images which highlight the awkward and bizarre fare that consumers of pornography are regularly offered. Contemporary erotic bodies in popular culture are typically tanned, taut, manipulated, shining and hairless and as such are eerily alike. Collecting and referencing these images allows Leah to explore a more curious range of human landscapes; from the slimy and slithery to the pompous, hairy and acrobatic. The stranger the imagery the wider the divide between subject and medium. Leah’s cross stitched images create an intriguing and bemusing interaction of subject and medium in opposition; forcing good and bad, naughty and nice, housewife and whore to coexist.