Iconic Hallucination Box

Jake and Dinos Chapman have been a collaborative team since the early 1990s. Over the last few years the central theme of their work has been the exploitation of the shop-window dummy. In a series of works they have employed the sanitary and kitsch qualites of these dummies to subvert and challenge contemporary notions of gender, taste and sexuality. 'Iconic Hallucination Box', like the dummies from their celebrated installation 'Tragic Anatomies', is a typical example.

Installed in a Peep-show format, the viewer's gaze is greeted by the image of a shop-window dummy standing in a seductive pose whose body displays a number of vaginas and penises protruding from and invading the figure. Once the initial shock of this extraordinary image wears off one is forced through the physicality involved in viewing the work to re-examine a wide range of issues concerning voyeurism, art, gender and the male gaze.