We Had Sex In A Dream

We Had Sex In A Dream was an ephe- meral installation exploring fantasies and sexual gestures. The images were accompagnied with live audio loops played by Luca Kasper (Layer V), setting up an hypnotic trance and breaking the normative definition of sexual intercourse suggesting preliminaries, clima

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x and orgasm.

The public was invited to lie down on carpets and pillows, adopting a relaxed posture in front of a video showing loops of sexual gestures. By seeing images being repeated, the question of the automatism becomes obvious: something we usually don’t control is deconstructed, separated in small sequences and forced to be seen a multiple time. The sexual intercourse is presented as a mechanical set of
movements, deseroticized because out of their usual intimacy. They bring a strange feeling, the confrontation between the intellectualisation of the process and the excitation they still provide independently.

The rest of the exhibition space was filled with representations of bodies, asking the viewer how sexual they can be felt when they are not in a sexual context. Private space invaded the public one. A performance took part during 30 minutes, involving two female bodies dysmorphied with fabrics engaging very slow interactions such as carresses and soft contacts. The spectator was able to walk around them, to see them on the same level as the images around.

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