Feast of masculinity 2 — Daoguang Wen

Feast of masculinity
男体盛

Manti Morihara refers to a Japanese cuisine, which uses the male body as a serving instrument to practice the worship and beautiful imagination of the male body.
Influenced by the male body display in the network, I gradually began to examine my own body and imagine the male body of others, on the one hand, I think that my body is not sexy enough, on the other hand, the male body seems to always intervene in the sexual imagination with the inherent role of sexual subject. Therefore, I wanted to make a work to break the false and eternal subjectivity of male "bodybuilding and majestic".
I gaze at the male body and present a sexual image based on the male body by doing 12 dishes. In many Chinese foods, the female body is stared at and constructed, such as bra cakes and platters with fairy or sexy female shapes. And in many languages and cultures, "dish" can refer to "object of sexual satisfaction", so there is a close relationship between food and sex and power. "Food and sex" is a famous saying in ancient China, which regards diet and sex as two important propositions of human beings. I take rice as the basic food to build an image, strengthen the relationship between rice, a staple food, and sex, and at the same time, look for sexual associations among common food ingredients, and present the male genitalia, male anus and sex between men that I gaze at (only men can become the absolute object of gaze in male sex). Finally, combined with the stereotypical construction of masculinity in the network, Present them playfully.

The work does not aim to mock the male body, but invites the viewer to imagine the imperfect male sexual image in order to gain a variety of perspectives, and this perspective is also a kind of power.

男体盛原指日本的一种料理，以男性身体作为盛食物的器具，实践了对男性身体的崇拜和美好想象。
受到网络中男性身材展示的影响，我逐渐开始审视自己的身体和想象他人的男性身体，一方面认为自己的身材不够性感健美，另一方面男性身体似乎也总是以性主体的固有角色介入在性想象中。于是就想做一个作品来打破对男性的“健美、雄伟”的虚假性的、永恒主体性的呈现。
我通过做12道菜的方式凝视男性身体并呈现基于男性身体的性形象。在中国很多食物中，女性的身体被凝视和建构，比如胸罩蛋糕以及带有仙女、性感女郎造型的摆盘。且在很多语言文化中，“菜”可以指代为“性满足对象”，因此食物和性、权力之间有着密切的联系。
“食色性也”是中国古代的一句名言，将饮食与性作为人的两大重要命题。我把大米作为塑造形象的基础食材，强化大米这一主食和性之间的关系，同时在常见食材中寻找具有性关联的，呈现我所凝视的男性生殖器、男性肛门以及男性之间的性爱（只有男男性爱中男性才能成为绝对的凝视客体），最后，结合网络中对男性气质的刻板建构，将它们戏谑地呈现。

这个作品并不旨在嘲讽男性身体，而是邀请观众想象不完美的男性性形象从而获得一种多样的视角，而这种视角也是一种权力。