Intro
/ 01 — 2023—
Performance, photography & video
Appropriation
Performance, photography & video
The project investigates the symbols of sexuality in art and entertainment, revealing dynamics of power, marginalization, and resistance. It explores the symbolic language of prostitution, eroticism, fetish, BDSM, and other subversive themes that permeate sexuality and its social and economic impact.
© 2023—
Statement
The project investigates the symbols of sexuality in art and entertainment, revealing dynamics of power, marginalization and resistance. It explores the symbolic language of prostitution, eroticism, fetish, BDSM and other subversive themes that permeate sexuality and its social and economic impact.
This project examines the use of these symbols both in the realms of art and entertainment, while also highlighting the concurrent marginalization of sex workers. Through the analysis of cultural representations, it seeks to understand how sexuality is portrayed and symbolized across various forms of media and art.
Sex work, in its various manifestations — prostitution, camming, striptease, pole dance, burlesque, BDSM, fetish and the cinematic pornographic industry — inhabits a space marked by structures of power, appropriation and subversion. These bodies that perform desire are simultaneously object and subject within a pleasure economy.
Performance
Fetiche 1 (mukbang)
Menu: Ceviche · Sancocho · Pamonha · Café · Bolo de fubá · Feijoada
The performance proposes a reflection on the politics of marginalized bodies within sexual contexts. The body, covered by a latex bodysuit and mask, becomes an anonymous and fetishized surface where identity disappears, giving way to a territory of projection and consumption.
By ingesting dishes such as feijoada, pamonha, ceviche or sancocho, the action goes beyond the act of eating. These foods operate as symbols that condense colonial histories, subsistence economies and cultural resistances. The act of eating reveals the paradox between the celebration of these cultures and their simultaneous exoticization and exploitation.
The black mask, in particular, alludes to processes of appropriation and erasure of narratives. In dialogue with Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, the work suggests that a mask is never neutral: it functions as a mediation between desire and violence, imposition and survival.
Social experiment
Self Service
A dating profile made entirely of photographs of food. The conversations that follow expose, without any editing, the grammar of consumption applied to a body that is not even there — until the account is reported and taken down.
Video
Database
Hifa Cybe + Ana Vohs
Performance
Empowering and Feminist Workshop Made by Male Photographers
Part of a series of works that questions the manipulation of the feminine as image and object inside photography. The performance is a critique of sexual abuse in the photography scene and of the appropriation of feminist speech within projects. The sentences spoken in the video are based on true facts: a research was carried out with artistic nude models and all of the sentences said did happen.
- “Sorry, but you are so hot that it's hard to focus on the photography”
- “Is it ok if I take my shirt off? I wanna get comfortable with you”
- “You are my little slut”
- “Spread your legs more”
- “If you tell someone I'll fuck you”
- “You are not a lesbian, it's just that you still haven't found a real man”
- “I need you to send me homemade pics, nude, before registering for this casting”
- “Can you shave? I don't like hairy women”
- “You have a pretty face, it's a shame you're fat”