The Insatiables 2024 is a collage of moving images and sound that aims to create different poetics through the random combination of scenes. The installation features five televisions arranged in a pyramidal formation. Each television plays a gay pornographic film made between the 70s and 80s. In the middle, we find two films: Forbidden Letters (1979) and Passing Strangers (1974), both created by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. (1943 – 1987), which serve as the protagonists of the installation. In both films, much of the narration is carried out through the reading of correspondence between lovers.
Accompanying Bressan's pieces, we find A Ghost of a Chance (1973) by Gorton Hall (1932 -1985) forming the top of the pyramid; Johan (1976) by Philippe Vallois (1948), Équation à un inconnu (1980) by Francis Savel (?), and Les Minets Sauvages (1984) by Jean-Michel Cadinot (1944 -2008) at the base. These other films serve as triggers for the creation of different poetics and readings through the combination of images and sounds. Each film is played in a loop and has a diverse duration, allowing the work to be a living entity, a constantly changing puzzle, a Cadavre Exquis, a game of chance. The sex scenes are removed to avoid potential prejudices and to appreciate the richness of the selected films' images, dialogues, and sounds.
Les Insatiables (2024)
Video Collage, MP4. Loop
The Insatiables 2024 began as a photography project. I spent months capturing frames from pornographic films of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, searching for those peak moments of beauty within these works. My aim was, above all, to extract still lifes, landscapes, and portraits from these films, isolating them from their original context to assess and appreciate their artistic value.
I included some drawings from my earlier works, as they also stem from an early fascination with vintage erotic imagery.
"I have always perceived those images and characters as saints, as angels of love. Through my drawings, I convey my interpretation of the scenes. The eroticism of the images I reference transforms into graphite lines. These traces are ever-present, even in their absence. The forms are completed because what is unseen is imagined. Drawing is a profoundly erotic act; there is always something concealed in contrast to what is revealed."
- Quoting myself.
