Adults In Wonderland

Description

Over the last fifteen years, Grace Lau?s photographic journey through the world of sexuality, gender identity and sado-masochistic sub-culture has earned her the reputation as one of the leading figures of erotic photography. This retrospective details that journey from her earliest male nudes, to her life as a voyeur at Skin Two functions and dominatrixes? dungeons, culminating in her most recent work on cross-dressing. From a feminist perspective, Grace Lau dissects sex and power and produces work that is revelatory, liberating and that celebrates the variety of sexual experience. Her photos travel well beyond the confines of S&M circuits, appearing on the covers of Time Out and Paris-Match as well as in the National Portrait Gallery and Chelsea Arts Club.

Amanda Hopkinson has edited several books on photography, including Between Ourselves, with Mari Mahr and Adults in Wonderland with Grace Lau, both published by Serpent's Tail. She is Literature Officer for the Arts Council of England. cargo

?Grace Lau rediscovers the erotic and the fetishistic... and returns the picturing of eroticism to its established place within British photography? Val Williams, New Statesman ?Grace Lau explores sex and power and produces work that is revelatory, liberating and that celebrates the variety of sexual experience? Fetish Times European