Talk:Jordan Wolfson

Wolfson's intention behind creating the "female figure".

Hello

In the section concerning the figure, it says that the work "adresses violence and objectification", however that seems to be exclusively the opinion of the writer of the article that is being linked to, and not Wolfson's. In fact, in this interview Wolfson explains his reasons behind creating the figure to be more of a fascination for humanoid animatronics;

" That idea “came a little from Jeff Koons,” Wolfson says, referring to Koons’s quasi-pornographic “Made in Heaven” series. “I had this notion that she had escaped from something relatively unscathed, without cuts or bruises—just dirty.” Strangely, the impetus for making the robot came from a visit to Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents with the artist Alex Israel in December 2012. “I saw an animatronic version of President Obama, and I was floored. He was moving his hands—and the physicality drove me crazy. I wanted that inside my work.” Wolfson alternately identifies with the robot (“She is me”) and distances himself from his creation (“What comes out of me isn’t literal, isn’t my desires”). The sexy-scary robot both does and does not reflect his own vision of romantic intimacy. The bad-boy, attention-getting antics in his artworks are not, he says, intended to be transgressive: “I hate the idea of spectacle.” As for Koons, whom he mentions frequently, borrows from occasionally, and calls a genius, he denies any particular connection between the work of that master provocateur and his own, at one point declaring, “The only king in my castle is me.” '

I think his standpoint on the figure should be better clarified in the relevant section of the article, and that it is *not* intended as a comment on gender politics.

Okama-San (talk) 18:30, 22 March 2019 (UTC)