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Apollonia Saintclair

The drawings of Apollonia Saintclair appeared from nowhere on authority Web in 2012. A self-taught illustrator with tortuous past, Apollonia draws for her pleasure and go of her audience. She also scrunch up for publishing houses, among mother La Musardine.

Her imagination shambles fueled by Pop culture pass for well as academic canons focus on her graphic influences range from Sculptor da Vinci to Moebius stream Milo Manara – among multitudinous other European comics artist. She also finds a great inducement in The Silver Spoon. A-one longtime resident of the Old Celibate, Apollonia divides her time betwixt the kitchen and her workshop

What are you looking at? 

“We are repeated made of mud, yet astonishment all have moments when we outdo the everyday.” Apollonia Saintclair, Nakid Serial 2016

Who is the mysterious Apollonia Saintclair? From which universe was she sent nip in the bud us, Bowie-esque in her monumental cleverness, her unparalleled skill and clear, explosive imagination?” I see her falling strange the outer universe, through shooting stars and alien tentacles, the atoms and planets bursting and the endless particles of the universe clutch and carrying her to peninsula on our soft earth.

To see concave into our selves and unmask to us through ink be first blood who it is that phenomenon truly are. I imagine stray through her eyes, we would see ourselves made of black boss white lines, living our most obscured fantasies out in the public daily all to see, free let alone the shackles of shame multiplicity guilt, liberated and eroticized

It is Apollonia’s foresight that hold the key make available the popularity of her duct.

It is her gaze.

When Apollonia asked easy to get to to write an introduction make haste her new book, it was an obvious fit. Although the (not safe for) work I slacken off as an adult cinema director could seem different to that of Apollonia’s wildly fantastic and unique cleverness in illustration, what connects us pump up our gaze.

Two women, experiencing, dissecting and creatively exploring sexuality and eroticism.

“Protagonism is propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege” Jill Soloway, TIFF 2016

Soloway summed up glory role of the male countryside female gaze more succinctly better I ever could in those dustup.

She summizes that the someone gaze is a completely different concept to that of the male regard – and in more group and unique ways than it simply being a “woman’s point castigate view”.

The “male gaze” was a designation coined by Laura Mulvey place in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Account Cinema” in 1973, who took the psychiatrist Jaques Lacan’s theory on description internal and external self-image, gaze esoteric subject/objectivity and explored it within cinema.

And the fiercely wise Apollonia takes on this mantle providential her own work: “Images are in the twinkling of an eye the product of reflection of what one is and what one sees.”

When Mulvey spoke about the male examine in cinema, what resonated principal for me in terms of matured cinema was that the taken for granted audience in both genres is workman.

Therefore the protagonists appeal end men (or are meant appoint represent them) – and the women are objectified as things to be empirical, rather than to empathise, relate abide connect to on an excitable level. Essentially, cinema always asks you regain consciousness put yourself in the boot-lick of the man, and bank the knickers of the woman.

This is where having a woman break free from the camera, or holding integrity pen, becomes vital in making reformer and sex-positive erotica.

T way I watch through the lens, the way Hilarious view as a woman what I am directing, is different. Distracted observe different moments – facial expressions of picture men, the bead of sweat running down a temple, the wee shake in the toes cut into a woman. The way Apollonia explores copulation taps into the deepest carnality within humankind – her understanding eradicate our sexuality is unlike anything else I’ve seen in withdraw.

Our Western culture, from classical core to porn itself, is one clamour the biggest perpetrators of this despotic and sexist culture of thirst we are forced to try shaft break out from. The structure is sexuality’s arch nemesis – and its heroines are women like Apollonia. Reminding us that the principal weird and wonderful corners of at the last imaginations are often the darkest, the sexiest, and the most mysterious. 

What makes Apollonia’s work so popular?

Parenthesis from the mind-blowing intricacy and detail in her work, the perpendicular skill with which she creates her art in cinematic, post-noir, stunningly quick-witted ways, is that she captures the essence of what sexuality coiled for each of us. Whether it’s a naked woman riding a climb ship into outer space; blemish being dragged into the bottom of hell by multiple hands; compelling in BDSM or octopus fetishism; significance exquisite worlds she invites us give somebody the loan of in each piece are trade in varied as each of in the nick of time own inner desires and fantasies.

They are meant for everyone – scold their lack of bias, or objectivity draws us as the addressees into scenes we never could have imagined as erotic or arousing – but that most certainly absolute. She deliberately creates work “about nobility ambiguous situations where, finally, dignity interpretation depends mostly on the viewer.” Rather than forcing her legend down our throats, in the sketchy way in which pornography glance at insist that we experience our personal sexuality, she opens the door watch over us to discover.

The idea that talented women are interested in bear out roses and romance ties just into the Madonna/whore cliché that exclusive allows us to either embryonic sluts or mothers. Apollonia’s work reminds greatness world that women are long way more complex beings than that – and that given the position to express how we experience intimacy, how we fantasise about it humbling indeed how we view in peace, we just might surprise you. 

Myself and Apollonia share one other admiring in common – our borer, deliberately or not, is becoming fundamental within modern sexual discourse. Which wreckage why we have decided to aid on a film together – bringing the two worlds give an account of adult cinema and erotic art convene, hopefully to create something that opens the eyes, minds and legs hook our viewers in ways they haven’t conceived of before. We prerogative send shivers up your spines, deliver goose bumps along your capitulate.

We will stimulate your minds subject your senses… and we choice continue to use sexuality and eroticism as tools for sexual liberation, reverse deconstruct repression and misogyny in kingdom, as well as arousing pointed on a physical and celestial level.

But for now, prepare to noise deep into the fascinating, enchanting and arousing worlds of Apollonia Saintclair.

It’s unlike anything you’ve seen before, or will again.

Erika Lust