For MIR23 Underground, rather than reach into existing collections, MIR Contest reached out to specific artists and invited them to participate in a unique exhibition focused on fetish and on the underground art scene.
Aaron Moth is the artistic alter ego of a Polish artist, fascinated by photography of architecture, nudity, eroticism & queer art from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Aaron Moth uses mostly erotic and pornographic pictures, through the technique of collage, he creates a new, more sensual quality. His works can be found in private collections, among others, in Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Poland, Brazil and the United States of America. Aaron Moth breathes, lives and works in Berlin.
Andi Fogt is a Chicago based artist invested in creating work exploring gender and sexuality. They graduated from Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA in Printmaking. Their aesthetic draws heavily from a background in intaglio and screenprinting, focused primarily on imagery which revels in line works and flat colors. They’re a body-positive, fat-positive, leather, genderqueer relationship anarchist who believes that art can (and should) be accessible.
Shilo McCabe has been photographing the leather, kink and sex-positive communities of the San Francisco Bay Area for over 15 years. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is honored to have her images in several print publications. Her work has been included in the Kinsey Institute Gallery's permanent collection and her self-published exhibition catalog from the “I masturbate…” show is now housed in a library at Harvard University. She is honored to work as the current Director of Photography for International Ms Leather Productions, LLC. Additionally, she has served on the board of LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts and was a Project Photographer for the Bay Area Women of Color Photo Project.