Artist Sam Roddick on the modern politics of sex...
The sex workers’ rights activist and artist calls on the government to protect the sex industry, as her new exhibition on objectification explores society's sexual failings.
In 1962, Carlo Mollino, the enigmatic Italian architect, bought a secluded villa in the hills over Turin. He worked hard on redesigning the house. But he didn’t live there. He never even slept there. Instead, he used it for over a decade as a place to invite prostitutes to pose for thousands of Polaroid photos. Each shot was meticulously directed by Mollino, who styled the models in obsessively repetitive – and sexual – poses.