Pornalikes
is a book of portraits with a difference. Culling his materials from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures, Polish artist Piotr Uklanski (born 1968) draws on men’s magazines such as
Hustler
and
Loaded
, as well as meme-culture material from websites and blogs, to assemble this challenging take on portraiture and celebrity . In
Uklanski subverts the original expectations of traditional art-historical portraiture, exploring the pop-cultural tensions between sexual identity and exploitation, man and woman, fiction and reality and challenging both easy moral parameters and good taste.
picks up where his cult series
The Nazis
Real Nazis
, also published by Edition Patrick Frey, left off.