CURATORIAL STATEMENT 

Carnal Collapse after 3 a.m. is a collection of eleven stills, two videos, a sound piece, and a sculpture that pause right against the argument between glorification and criticism. The work reveals how fetishization and identification create circuits for desire in culture by cruising the realms of digital, material, and biological. It is a testimony about romance in an urban, individualist, narco capitalist, network environment and it approaches the quest for emancipation in love as a cybernetic practice. It pays tribute to the moments we give in to our absolute physical demands and lose ourselves in futility as we break free from the heteronormative models in search of self-awareness.

Even though the complexities in queer politics revolve around validation, Super Gonorrhea sheds light on the unresolved situation of subjectivity-in-action and sharpens the obscurity in which many of us are hanging. While an iconology on these images would have plenty of material to work with, the compositions are full of quietness. The presence of the rational white male able human body here becomes an offering to our otherness. Super Gonorrhea brings the politics of online dating in art to depict appropriation as a response and resistance for all the times we cannot offer a novel answer, to underline the importance of subversion for us to sustain our continuity, to emphasize the first step towards empowerment; tolerance towards us.

Does it turn you on that you won’t be satisfying your stranger partner tonight?


by KHARES TOKATLIDIS

Curation by ELENI GIANNAKOULI
Hosted by THE EYE ALTERING GALLERY