Project
Self-Portrait with Whip
In Self-Portrait with Whip, Carlos Motta restages Robert Mapplethorpe’s once-scandalous 1978 photograph of the same title. To summon this memory from the gay art canon is to reassess its cultural legacy. Reflected in a glass darkly, the viewer does not escape capture within the art historical confrontation. It is an invitation to reexamine received histories in light of present conditions.
