Lisa Anne Auerbach: Torn Porn

Date
12 December 2011

We all know the feeling, it’s the late 1980s, you’re in Chicago O’Hare airport and you stumble across some torn up porn magazines…what’s that? Ok, us neither but luckily that did happen to American artist Lisa Anne Auerbach, who stored the curious artefacts for years before making these intriguing pieces. Blown up to 52″ × 44″ inches, the scraps take on a life of their own, a glimpse of vintage erotic glamour or a seedy testament to our relationship with stifled sexuality? Lisa believes they were scattered by a guilty businessman returning from a trip, and the act of destruction and what it meant adds a powerful new dimension to the project.

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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