Uncut
1026 venice blvd, suite E
Monday, March 11 at 7:00 PM 10:00 PM
Ends Apr 18, 2019
ELEVATOR MONDAYS is pleased to present Uncut a single-channel video by Maura Brewer and Paul Pescado that responds to John Wayne Bobbitt’s 1996 pornographic film by the same name. Uncut is the 7th project in an ongoing series of holiday collaborations by Brewer and Pescador. Opening Monday, March 11th, the exhibition will be on view through April 18 to coincide with the Christian holiday Lent. In their video, Brewer and Pescador revisit the 1993 crime and its aftermath. After cutting off John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis with a kitchen knife, Lorena Bobbitt became a symbol of the sex scandals of the early 1990s. Lorena, a victim of marital rape, was painted as both victim and perpetrator in the public eye. Subsequent to John Wayne’s surgical reconstruction, he attempted to capitalize on his new celebrity by restaging the incident for the 1996 adult film Uncut. In Brewer and Pescador’s video, the original film is used as source material to explore the relationship between survivor and abuser in the #metoo era. This video will play on loop during Lent, a holiday in which something is given up. Signature cocktails will be served. Accompanying the exhibition will be an essay by Andy Campbell.