> ALEJANDRO MANZANO
2024
Los Insaciables (2024) es un collage de imágenes en movimiento y sonido que busca la creación de diferentes poéticas a través de la combinación aleatoria de elementos. La instalación cuenta con cinco televisores, cada uno reproduciendo escenas de diferentes películas gay pornográficas realizadas entre las décadas de los 70 y 80. Al centro, encontramos dos películas: Forbidden Letters (1979) y Passing Strangers (1974), ambas creadas por Arthur J. Bressan Jr. (1943 – 1987), que funcionan como elementos protagonistas de la instalación. En ambas películas, gran parte de la narración es conducida por la lectura de correspondencia entre amantes, un acto de autoexploración de los propios sentimientos.
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.
