I don’t know about all that, but I know I like girls on bikes standing in front of murals.
GIRLS ON BIKES
An ongoing public installation project.
Working with volunteer models, bikes (INSA’s current preferred icon of commodified culture), and large scale painted walls INSA creates momentary installations in public spaces.
In this set of photographic works INSA orchestrates a conflicting dialogue between all the elements and explicitly subordinates the value of his own street art to both the possessed object of the bike and the overtly sexualized female presence. Thus questioning our individual perceptions of ownership of public space, of sexuality and of belonging(s).
What I’m questioning is whether this artist actually thinks he’s doing anything but finding an excuse to objectify women...
I don’t know about all that, but I know I like girls on bikes standing in front of murals.