Duologue

I originally made ‘Duologue’ to explore the Baroque technique of drama and movement — to create the feeling of a beginning, a middle and a climax all at once. For me, the piece is also a call for retrospection in each individual. Like, step out of yourself for once and have a conversation with your other self. Call it self-talk; call it internal dialogue; call it soliloquy.

Having made the work in 2022, this year I realized that it was speaking way beyond what I had thought, because of news about a Florida parent who ridiculously decried Michelangelo’s David sculpture as pornography.

In a simplistic way, the work has become a defiance of that warped way of thinking about nudity in works of art — a pollution fueled mostly by religious morality.

This piece was a part of 2023 'Web to Verse', an exhibition at Modal Gallery, the School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.