He has that sadness in his eyes that you only see in Eastern European gay p*rn
-(internet meme) In 2004, a new European Union law was drafted to create a single market for services in the EU, allowing workers to move freely between countries. The figure of the Polish plumber became a symbol of Western European fears that cheap Eastern European labour would threaten local jobs, while also representing foreign labour that was more affordable and reliable. The performance Sexy Slavic Boys appropriates this Western gaze and tells the story of a wave of Eastern European gay pornography that flooded Western markets in the 1990s. In these images, the Slav was not yet seen as an enemy, but rather as a cheap, naive boy toy. The work juxtaposes Oberek, a traditional Polish folk dance, and Belgian/Dutch rave dance Jumpstyle that peaked in the early 2000s.