The archive uses of erotic and non-erotic images which the author pragmatically modifies in an attempt to overcome the flatness of the photographic medium, trying to give them materiality. This book has in fact strongly manipulated, the physical presence is preponderant and the alterations that she implements through numerous modifying techniques, such as cutting, drawing, ripping, are handcrafted, again there is the need to concretize them, to give them body.
Starting from the cover itself, where each issue is a unique piece, the hole is the result of a punch of the authors.
The attempt for deconstruction that the author carries out in all her work could not be clearer, she does nothing but strip, disassemble, decompose reality from its superstructures, bringing it back to what is most primitive, our animal essentiality.
There is no more appropriate word to describe the investigation accomplished by Ann Massal, if not close. In fact, is a research conducted very closely, with the aim of bringing the viewer closer to reality and to their hedonistic nature.