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MATT SMITH

S. AFRICA: VENUS MONSTROSA

DATE: 2019

MEDIUM: SILKSCREEN PRINT ON HANDMADE INDIAN COTTON PAPER

DIMENSIONS: 76 X 56 CM

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COURTESY OF CYNTHIA CORBETT GALLERY

These prints were developed for the exhibition ‘Losing Venus’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Each print is based on a photograph from the museum’s collection. Each photograph was taken in a country where the British imposed or maintained homophobic legislation. Drawing on the gridded patterns used in Victorian photography to ‘scientifically record’ racial difference, the photographs illustrate the erasure of identities and ways of being around the world under colonial rule. Each print is labelled with the country where the source photograph was taken and also with the homophobic legislation statute implemented, or maintained, by the

British. (Original photographs from the archives of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)