Gabriel L. Gooch Blanco’s work, Retracing Eden, aims to challenge the gaze of the viewer and contemporary notions of masculinity. He uses collage and solarisation techniques to contest the homogenous archetype of the male body – through reconceptualising, referencing and appropriating the already proven depictions of the male gaze in academic painting and photography. Furthermore, his work resists against the homogenous male, by shifting the hard, defined and ready for action idealised male body to the soft, subtle and relaxed poses that are utilised to typically objectify the ‘female’ body.
