HOLIDAYS FROM MORALITY — 2022

Digital/-
Analog.

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The idea behind my work was an observation of the gay subcultures such as gay saunas and other places or ways gay men resort to while on the search for pleasure and anonymity. I draw parallels between intercourse and the consumption of substance. An instinctive, even primitive need linked to survival, but taken to the extreme by society’s oppression of queer people, forbidding them to live out their fantasies or basic sexual attraction shamelessly. Hence, in the center of my work, the reaction of gay men towards systemic humiliation of queer sexual desire, manifesting itself in a hunt for short term pleasure and quick reward, fueled by a suppressed, yet volcanic lust.

The color blue stereotypically stands for boys. There is only room for boys/men. I used it in my work as a way to point out the “mask for mask” attitude, commonly found in the community.  Furthermore, and as an extension to my initial idea, Miyazaki’s  Spirited Away, more specifically, the general treatment of food and the scenes in the bathhouse. A world filled with gluttonous, phantasmagorical characters. The manner in which the creatures devoured everything on their way (or even fought for it !) echoed with how I wanted to represent the human body as both a vessel and a fount of sexual desire.