FORNIPHILIA

Forniphilia is a form of bondage in which a person's body is incorporated into a chair, table, cabinet or other piece of furniture. The term was invented by Jeff Gord and it's considered the ultimate fashion trend in art and fashion events, especially in China and Japan. The body, this way, passes from 'dress' to 'address', from fashion to home furniture, housing design and becoming part of inanimate, passive decoration.

Devon Aoki is set as part of the set, in a style that mixes A Clockwork's Orange, Helmut Newton, Fritz Lang and 50's postmodernist pin ups. The #22 issue of Pop, photos by Sean and Seng, is funny but freaky. Devon Aoki, as I recently mentioned in another post on Envy.us, is quite incredible for her unique ability to serve the photographer with the required detachment and frozen submission, making this subject quite intriguing for the message it conveys and contains, making - to quote good old McLuhan -  the media (Aoki) the message.

My question is: instead of making sex ON the table (like Nicholson and Lange in the "Postman always rings twice", or like in almost any movie with Michael Douglas) should we try to make sex WITH a table?

Cheers, Carlo