'Soaked 09' by Petar Petrov

By SHOWstudio, 00:00 Wed 20 Aug 2008

Suffused with luminescent colour, shot with an almost claustrophobic slowness and owing a debt to the common currency of contemporary fashion advertising, Petar Petrov’s entirely silent contribution to Future Tense manages, nevertheless, to say a great deal. Reminiscent of both the implied eroticism of David Hockney’s Pool series, and the myth of Narcissus in its waterbound championing of masculine beauty, Petrov’s haunting film is interesting in its focus on the male form divine - naturally enough, perhaps, for a menswear designer. However, while the nude-coloured garments are designed to go (almost) unnoticed, the power and impact of the aesethetic is indelible. A Bigger Splash indeed.

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