ANTÓNIO MANSO PRETO
22, Antwerp/Porto
video, publication, sculpture, photography, archive, text, research, homoafectiveness, apropriation and loneliness
video, publication, sculpture, photography, archive, text, research, homoafectiveness, apropriation and loneliness
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. … Language experiences orgasm upon touching itself. (BARTHES)
As representações divergem entre as corpos emotivos do trabalho artístico de Curt Mcdowell dos anos 70-80, Loads e Confessions e o wrestling como performance dos papeis submissos/dominantes, violentos, teatrais das relações homossexuais de Lords of the Lockeroom (King of this Gym). O corpo pornográfico aparece como pensamento das exigências da masculinidade, das intercessões entre a desordem, a sensualidade e os momentos de calma, da violência como performance nas relações homoeróticas. Espelhadas na trama citadina, dos becos aos bairros culturais, as imagens-objeto tornadas janelas ou fendas para um pensamento sobre as relações entre o publico e o privado.
The representations diverge between the emotional bodies of Curt Mcdowell's artwork from the 70s-80s, Loads and Confessions, and wrestling as a performance of the submissive/dominant, violent, theatrical roles of homosexual relationships in Lords of the Lockeroom (King of this Gym). The pornographic body appears as thought of the demands of masculinity, of the intersections between disorder, sensuality and moments of calm and of violence as a performance in homoerotic relationships. Mirrored in the city's fabric, from the alleys to the cultural districts, the object-images, turned into windows or cracks for thought about the relationship between the public and the private
As representações divergem entre as corpos emotivos do trabalho artístico de Curt Mcdowell dos anos 70-80, Loads e Confessions e o wrestling como performance dos papeis submissos/dominantes, violentos, teatrais das relações homossexuais de Lords of the Lockeroom (King of this Gym). O corpo pornográfico aparece como pensamento das exigências da masculinidade, das intercessões entre a desordem, a sensualidade e os momentos de calma, da violência como performance nas relações homoeróticas. Espelhadas na trama citadina, dos becos aos bairros culturais, as imagens-objeto tornadas janelas ou fendas para um pensamento sobre as relações entre o publico e o privado.
The representations diverge between the emotional bodies of Curt Mcdowell's artwork from the 70s-80s, Loads and Confessions, and wrestling as a performance of the submissive/dominant, violent, theatrical roles of homosexual relationships in Lords of the Lockeroom (King of this Gym). The pornographic body appears as thought of the demands of masculinity, of the intersections between disorder, sensuality and moments of calm and of violence as a performance in homoerotic relationships. Mirrored in the city's fabric, from the alleys to the cultural districts, the object-images, turned into windows or cracks for thought about the relationship between the public and the private