Los Insaciables

Los Insaciables (2024) is a collage of moving images and sound that seeks to create different poetics through the random combination of elements. The installation has five televisions, each playing scenes from different gay pornographic films made between the 70s and 80s. In the center, we find two films: Forbidden Letters (1979) and Passing Strangers (1974), both created by Arthur J . Bressan Jr. (1943 – 1987), which function as the main elements of the installation. In both films, much of the narrative is driven by the reading of correspondence between lovers, an act of self-exploration of one’s feelings.

Accompanying Bressan’s pieces, we find: A Ghost of a Chance (1973) by Gorton Hall (1932 -1985); Johan (1976) by Philippe Vallois (1948); Équation à un inconnu (1980) by Francis Savel (?); Les Minets Sauvages (1984) by Jean-Michel Cadinot (1944 -2008). These other tapes 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 different duration, which allows the work to be a living entity, a puzzle in constant change, Cadavre Exquis, a game of chance. The sex scenes are eliminated to avoid possible prejudices and to be able to appreciate the richness of the images, dialogues and sounds of the tapes.