Employing strategies of corruption and encryption Timmy van Zoelen seduces the spectator to engage in his perverted phantasms. In his work Van Zoelen exercises his idiosyncratic humour by sharing his salacious and facetious views on contemporary as well as historical obscenities. Continuously struggling between abstinence and indulgence, evaluating desire and display, we find this results in an amalgamation of works erecting an uncanny web of allegoric integrity where the old and the new interpenetrate.

Timmy van Zoelen (NL,1982) lives and works in The Hague and Rotterdam

New Wave (2010), digital video 3’33, part of The Q’s & the A’s and the ha-wha-zhei-wow’s (2010-)

Disposition [d’un] aquarium marin pour l’étude de la locomotion dans l’eau, in Etienne-Jules Marey, Le Mouvement, Paris, 1894, p. 210, fig. 156.  ETH- Bibliothek Zürich, Sammlung Alte Drucke. —p.162, part of The Q’s & the A’s and the ha-wha-zhei-wow’s (2010-)

Figure 1. Frequency distributions of the time that female Cynopterus sphinx licked (black portions) and did not lick (white portions) the male’s penis in 20 copulation attempts. (2010), image, part of Fruit Bat Fellatio (2010-)

I Don’t O U Like 2 Vowels (A.K.A. Lil’ Wayne Pudding Filter), multimedia installation (2010)