Pairing – Jenny Holzer vs. Marc Jacobs
Jenny Holzer “Untitled (Men Don’t Protect You Anymore)” 1983-85
Marc Jacobs “Condom” 2008
www.artmetropole.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=shop.FA_dsp_browse_details
kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/6409
www.marcjacobs.com/lookbooks/special-items/
Marc Jacobs photograph by Brenda Ton www.flickr.com/photos/nerb
Never made this connection before, but on the Jenny Holzer condom is printed ‘nonoxynol 9’ – which was basically found to.increase the occurance of hiv in high risk groups (like the African sex workers they tested it on)
The slogan seems all the more apt for knowing that.