Article: Nicola Torke: Agentur fur Zeit-Genossische Kunst. (Hamburg).(Brief Article)

Every well-stocked porno shop has two types of sex dolls for sale: the classic blowup doll and the imitation vagina, which (in terms of form) is, at best, abstract-looking. The latter "can't replace a real pussy," as the accompanying promotional material admits, "but it comes damn close!" Nicola Torke presented a refinement of a quite different nature in her latest exhibition. There, a sex doll stood on three short, titlike legs, cast in spotless white porcelain and detailed with a precious line of gold. This work, Seemannsbraut (Sailor's cushion), 2001, didn't look at all like a practical love substitute; indeed, it resembled an organic, abstract form a la Henry Moore ...

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