Martin Eder (b. 1968)

'I think a nude is always sexual, as long as society doesn’t change completely. Nudes will always be around us, so I reinvented the nude for myself. They say 90% of web traffic is erotic content, which means that people want to see that, but they do it behind closed doors. That brought me back to my upbringing in a society that was very behind closed door. This reflects how society is totally repressed. They repress their needs and their sexuality. I’m not trying to turn anybody on with my art. I’ve noticed that my work has a strong effect on people. Repression and emptiness and dumbness all combined to create my art somehow...I’m not interested in naked women at all; I’m not interested in naked men either. I’m interested in the way that society looks at sexuality.' (M. Eder, quoted in ‘On repression’, Purple Fashion, Fall Winter 2013/2014 Vol. III, Issue 20, pp. 128-129.)