MYSTERY WOMEN

There’s a horror-movie sexiness to Aaron Hawks’ photography — not the knife-wielding cheerleader sexiness of ’80s horror, but an older and grimier brand.

Presumably, the brunette in the black gloves has telekinetically reconfigured the furniture, and the girl by the pond crawled up from the bottom.

Hawks builds his own sets, and his details tell stories.  It’s an odd evocation, but sex and horror share a lot of common ground: transmutation, resurrection, and most of all, the mysteries of the body. — Peter Smith

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SHADOW DANCING

There’s something sinister about K. Leo’s photos, something both stainless steel clean and yet mysteriously grimy.

At first, beguiled by the pneumatic breasts and abdomens, you may pass blithely over the taxidermied animals quietly inserted into the sequence. It’s only later that you notice the narrative, the model ascending the stairs to an uncertain fate, or the one who hovers in a black fluid.

Maybe she’s about to be stuffed and mounted. Come to think of it, there’s an ominous glow to the eyes in these close-ups, like they’re made of glass — a disturbing subtext of manipulation and artificial perfection. Something these models probably know a bit about. — Peter Smith

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