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Pool and Cyber Sex, by
Faiyaz Jafri, at Totem Gallery
March 8 - April 1 Reception March 8, 6-9 pm
 
Totem Gallery is pleased to present Faiyaz Jafri's computer generated art, Pool
and Cyber Sex. Inspired by Japanese comics and animation, Jafri creates digital
narratives that explore how innocence and eroticism are contradictory yet closely
related themes.
Based on old photos of Madonna that Jafri received in an email from a friend,
Pool reinterprets and transforms the photographs to depict a virtual space. Jafri
digitally renders an environment that is stylistic yet minimal and void of details.
In Cyber Sex, based on manga and hentai (pornographic Japanese animation), Jafri
renders an image and narration of tentacle sex. The young girl is suspended in
air by tentacles, which penetrate her orifices. Jafri explores Eastern/Western
cultural differences in the depiction of erotic imagery. Often anime characters
appear idealized with Western traits. Cyber Sex presents the reversal of the
norm, whereby a typically idealized Western woman is placed within an Eastern
context.
Faiyaz Jafri is a New York based digital artist. Originally of Pakistani decent,
he was born and raised in The Netherlands. Upon graduating from Delft University
with a Masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering in 1996, he moved to Amsterdam
to pursue a career in computer art. Jafri moved to New York in 1998.
Faiyaz Jafri has held solo exhibitions of his digital work using billboards in
Amsterdam and New York. He has also directed short animation videos, which were
screened at the Mind the Gap festival in Amsterdam and shown on the Internet.
His website, www.bam-b.com has been reviewed and voted best site by web magazines
around the world. His work has also been published in books such as Fluid and
Symbol Soup. Jafri is a contributor to numerous magazines: The Face, Nova, Wired,
Spin, Raygun, Numero, and Jalouse.
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