Residual Bodies

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With RESIDUAL BODIES, Forma Editions experiments with vintage imagery and the tactile feel of print on paper. It revisits an interest explored in 2016 when the press launched its f irst project, Not For Sale to Minors, a large-format newsprint series that reimagined gay porn imagery by removing its explicit elements. Through three issues, that early work focused on the tension between erotic representation, censorship, and the materiality of print. It suggested that queer desire is not only articulated through what is shown, but also through what is obscured, cropped, or withheld, an exploration of absence. Show more