Frosty Fire: Recent Photographs

Olaf Martens is one of the most provocative (and funny) photographers to emerge from Eastern Europe after the Iron Curtin's fall. His works blend politics and sexuality into absurdity: a cadre of naked women, armed with kitchen knives, a corkscrew, and an iron remove a man's rib in a living room; Lenin's state portrait eyes a red leather clad woman, while folding his hands over his lap; the workers march, red flags in hand, but someone's not wearing her denim pants! Lively erotic weirdness!