Time Based
You have safe sex, but you believe in love
video installation (plaster, velvet, lampshade, projector beads, projection)
variable
2014
Real relationships compared to romantic comedies and the end of the 1960s are two examples of what happens when a fantasy is realized: it leaves the realm of the fantastic and becomes part of our imperfect reality.
Harkening to the notion of a jouissance as presented by Jaque Lacan, this piece is comparing the notion that knowing how something happens ruins the mystique. The diminished intensity can be compared to having sex with a condom.