Jason Briggs' dark erotic porcelain sculptures blend attraction and repulsion

Jason Briggs, a sculptor living in rural Tennessee near Nashville, has spent 25 years evolving from classical forms to deviant, metamorphic creations. His larger-than-life porcelain sculptures fuse male and female sexual characteristics, combining allure and repulsion. The works feature compressed white flesh squeezed by flesh-colored corsets, with orifices and organs merged in a fetishistic, bondage-inspired delirium. Briggs cites a deep desire to provoke touching, comparing it to his first encounter with Playboy at age 8. He aims to create mysterious, stimulating objects that demand viewer interaction with wonder and trepidation. The sculptures represent the dark side of eros, evoking unpleasant physical contact. They generate a bidirectional effect: natural and artificial, figurative and abstract, erotic and anti-erotic. Works like 'Peel' suggest peeling forbidden fruit, while 'Squirt' directly represents female ejaculation. The article by Ferruccio Giromini was published in Artribune Magazine #43.