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A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart — Anastasia Booth, A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart, 2025, digital collage: found and captured material.

Metro Arts

Anastasia Booth

A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart

A man that didn’t have betrayal in his heart harkens back to a younger me, poetically reconstructing engagements in erotic scenario by delving into past memories. Capricious and foolish longing, desire gone awry and where the toil of sensuality (its unpronounced labour) is a submission to melancholy. Instead of using erotic abstraction and post-structuralism to reclaim intimacy, these sculptures revel in floundering inadequacy.

An ontology both anxious and self-aware which draws from minimalism, love hotel interiors, industrial materials, kink environments, classical statuary, ball gags, fetishism and diaristic modes. Fragments amass into minimal scapes of mock dramaturgy, where luxury and sensuality are fraught with cheapness, unable to sustain the projections of arousal we attribute to them.

4 September—15 November

Metro Arts

97 Boundary St, West End QLD, Australia

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