Marialba Russo: Public Sex Betty Tompkins which is being sold in

which is being sold in honour of the 25th anniversary of this seminal project being produced for the ICA

Drawing from the performance practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

This look can be unsettling—it is met by a countergaze that negates any monolithic categorization of those being depicted

recounts a life spent living with the aftermath of that decision

Marialba Russo: Public Sex Betty Tompkins which is being sold inNero, 2021, softcover, 168 pages, 15 x 18 cm Naples, late Seventies. On the citys streets scandalous, indecent posters suddenly appeared, and then quickly disappeared, replaced by new images. They only lasted two years before being censored. The posters were taken from porn movies, with bodies of naked, obscene, tempting women. Their focus, however, was not only womens bodies but also (and mostly) male desire and those years dominant macho imagery.