Male Sex Workers; An Exhibition
On Wednesday, my colleague Liatema and I attended a rather interesting exhibition by Tahir Carl Karmali; a Nairobi based photographer and digital & mixed media artist in conjunction with sculptor Meshack Oiro at the Kuona Trust, and I learned a lot about Value.
Imagine if you could see through the eyes of a male sex worker, hear them? Get to understand what they value, well there is a place you can do exactly that.
Well , there is a place you can do exactly that… Of course you are not going to see Male Sex Workers posing for you taking questions, but you are going to see something close to that. Welcome to the most intriguing exhibition in town at Kuona Trust, ‘VALUE’.
VALUE is Tahir Carl Kamali debut exhibition. It plays on both the public’s curiosity with the subject of Male Sex Workers who are photographed holding items they value most while challenging the viewer to perceive the value of the object through the subject’s eye and still contemplate on what would they have chosen and in thus find our differences and similarities in value.
In the time when the debate is raging on homosexuality and the nature of the subject of Male Sex Workers then this provocative exhibition is bound to raise the debate albeit in a different angle. The exhibition started yesterday and runs through the 13th of March, 9am-5pm daily at Kuona Trust, Likoni Lane off Denis Pritt Road.
So do you think you share your view of values with Male Sex workers? If so does it affect your perception of them?
