Purotica
Immersive . Collective . Experience
A Co-curated exhibition in collaboration with Ameera Kawash
4 July - 9 September 2017
This innovative group show investigates eroticism through technology and art. The six participating artists engage the senses through painting, digital collage, sound design, kinetic sculptures and other art forms. By creating an immersive experience for the senses, these artists explore the potential of pleasure in extending the realm of the self, into the space of the ‘other’, both in classically sexual as well as inorganic and autoerotic terms. ‘Purotica’ showcases the work of young, millennial artists exploring an individualistic concept of eroticism as an intimate conversation or form of self-expression that counters the more generic position of the erotic consumer as a self-indulgent and problematically gendered member of modern society.
-Ameera Kawash
Participating Artists
Maria Kassab
Orestis Zafereiou
Ameera Kawash
Pau Marinello
Dana Farran
Photography by Marta Bogdanska
Maria Kassab
Kassab's works are deeply rooted in and inspired by the political climate of Lebanon and her youth in Montreal. Her collages recall the dadaist Hannah Hoch, whom she cites as an influence, she constructs a contemporaneous identity affected by the illogical and surreal, offering a new vision of a more malleable humanity via the use of social icons and imagery. In ‘Vanishing Organs’, she imagines permutations of sexuality and gender in an unfolding future.
Maria Kassab
Pau Marinello
Born in 1990 in Barcelona, where he currently directs the drawing program at the Barcelona Academy of Art and holds his studio art practice. His work plays with the language of the painters of the past in the context of our times. The works on display explore the relationship between technology and sexuality, inviting viewers to interact with digitally inverted imagery as well as revisiting Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’.
Pau Marinello
Pau Marinello
Ameera Kawash
Exploring the expanse and limits of the pleasure of viewing, this piece counterpoints the erotic with geometric forms. Using pyramidal and triangular shapes that function as surrogates for the cone of perception and the act of seeing, this holographic sculpture creates multiple points of perspective that override a classical sense of singular positionality.
Ameera Kawash
Ameera Kawash
Orestis Zafereiou
The artist uses audio design to explore spatial and psychological situations, where listening becomes the medium that connects dimensions together. In these sound installations, Zafeiriou invites the viewer to participate through touch and heat sensors, acting as a voyeur, intruder, and a conductor of their own experience.
Orestis Zafereiou
Orestis Zafereiou
Dana Farran
After experiencing the audiovisual world by working in film, Farran debuted her artistic work at the Beirut Art Fair and Milan Design Week. in ‘Intimately Connected', Farran explores the relationship between nature, autoeroticism and spirituality, themes she continuously returns to in her work.
Dana Farran
The meandering search twists and turns as a flowing fleshy form-malleable neon wrapped in pink cellophane. Like sensual curvaceous muscle fiber floating in space, it draws you into its luminous presence, a curiously elegant thread, reminiscent of draped fabric in a renaissance painting it could also be an alien apparition. From somewhere else. Just not here.
