Our Western society is dominated by a hyper-sexualised visual culture and is entirely saturated with pornography. Promotional leaflets, TV adverts, posters on the street, … all use techniques from the porno industry. Starting from this observation, Mette Ingvartsen shows a collection of erotic and affective material.
Rather than concentrating on explicit sex, she confronts us with a number of characteristics of pornography: expressions of cruelty, clinical precision, violence and pain; but sometimes pleasure, arousal and sensation too. Through the intermingling of physical actions with narrative descriptions, a speculative choreography is created that both appeals to the spectator’s imagination and brings about intense physical sensations.
“One thing’s for sure: after this performance you’ll never look at sex in the same way again.” - De Standaard