Money shot

Body and Capital

MONEY SHOT is the second issue of the pXXy PORN art booklet series by GOTT&GILZ. The publication, published in 2018, deals with the relationship between corporeality, sexuality, and economic power.

At the center is the American dollar bill as a symbol of money, wealth, and social influence. In the photographic installations, it becomes part of female body representations: as jewelry, a covering, a prop, or an oversized object.

The works explore the close connection between sexuality and commerce. Physical attractiveness becomes a commodity, attention a financial factor. At the same time, the photographs play with the mechanisms of advertising and the visual exaggeration of beauty, success, and desire.

MONEY SHOT also touches upon the question of the boundaries between art and pornography. What is perceived as aesthetically pleasing, provocative, or offensive is subject to societal perceptions that constantly change.

The series connects these themes into a visual language in which bodies, capital, and social value systems interact in contradictory ways.

Money Shot – pXXy PORN No. 2

2018 · 28 pages including the cover · four colors 10.5 × 10.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-00-060696-0