house of o'dwyer 
 artist + curator + writer 

 

This series of photographs captures images of Graffiti penises found in public space and civic precincts.

 

The title of each contain the postcode / area code of where the pictures were taken, highlighting an idea of a function for these phallic symbols, a marking out of territory.

 

What is being depicted? Art? Vandalism? Territorial markings? Orgy of the erotic? Phallocentrism?

 

Is it an eruption through the fabric of the social arena of the driving spirit of the ‘Freudian Man’?

 

The series represents the persistent and universal importance of the erotic and it’s inevitable crudeness. 

 

The conflict between ideas of man as a will to power (Adler) versus the will to sex (Freud) informs the work, as does the notion of sublimated eroticism in art.

 

Rodin claimed to sculpt with his cock.

 

Like other photographic projects by o'dwyer, the series is consciously similar to a game, as well as an anthropological project.