#this post is me recording my moment of intense fascination w this dude

[friarameer]

leon golub, interrogation i

leon golub, interrogation ii

leon golub, interrogation iii

leon golub says, “monsters exist because we create them through war and violence and distortion and the way we handle people and so on.” he and the rest of the monster roster draw monsters to prove how monsters are made (or, how war happens). golub’s interrogation scenes “[invite] the viewer into the space of the action” to implicate monstrosity of the viewer and subjects both. via the broad:

the nudity of the victim presents a moral dilemma, described by curators ned rifkin and lynn gumpert as creating, “the disconcerting need to align themselves with the clothed interrogators who are in control of the situation.”