Luiz Lopes - zipinagallery@gmail.com
To play against the camera, avoiding its automatic features, relying more on its optical- quimichal procedures than over its apparently obligatory mimesis, trying to portrait man and women on their unique defect, showing what we are supposed to hide, stripping ourselves, touching intimate layers, exposing it.
Deformations
Our sexual understanding, sensitivity and desire are deformed. The media objectify women’s bodies at the same time that brands claim to be feminist and anti-sexist. The idea of consumption is integrated with the sexual practice. Sex as a metaphor of involvement, as a creative exercise of exposure and vulnerability is gone. We have models instead of autonomy, we obey to a standard format that mainstream media teach us is the only way.
A subtle but omnipresent education that says NO to life. The sex we have is self-entitled and narcissistic. We don’t explore our vulnerabilities, our peculiarities. We don’t show our intimate selves but a made up character, a product, a version of us that has very little to do with our complexity. Intimate layers, transformation, fragility, shared renewed awareness, self growth do not concern us, narcissism does.
We follow a model given by a market, a lot and fast is how they teach us to do everything. We touch not according to our desires but according to this model, a model that says what sex is and that says it according to market interests. Life is of no concern. We are afraid of real exposure, we fuck to escape. We are coward and lost, we are consumers, we are deformed.