SKIN on SKIN by Dinh Q. Le Artist’s Statement

Since the legalization of the internet in Vietnam at the end of 1997. It has played a major role in the sexual revolution of the country.
The internet opened up Vietnam to the world of information but the government eventually blocked sites with corruptable content, like the BBC and many others.

To own, to show or to shoot pornography is not allowed in Vietnam. But curiously, none of the major international pornography websites are blocked. With the government turning a blind eye to enforcing the anti pornography law, everyone in Vietnam accessed pornography out of curiosity, for sexual pleasure….it had completely changed Vietnam society’s moral attitude toward sexuality.

This body of work, Skin On Skin, is a celebration of the sexual revolution in Vietnam via the pornography that is widely available on the internet to Vietnamese. There are very little to no professional pornography images produce by Vietnamese. We are still largely consume the international porn that is available to us on the net, thus why this body of work using only international pornography images.