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An attempt to create a sacred space for people of color—especially of my color—and their desire. An attempt to create a place for the melanated to come together and heal. An attempt to reshape a vicious medium from the inside—to use a porn studio to combat the natures of sex and work under racial capitalism: the comforting, comfortable consumption of black bodies by the white and the monied; the easeful assumption of sexually-charged goods, seemingly longing for nothing but their own exploitation. An attempt to make a work that indicts the viewer—and that compromises the safety of their pornographic gaze. An attempt to undo a business model at its very foundations, recast—instead—to appeal to the site’s subscribers.
Project description, as reworked by Himeros: “Hookups get a bad rap as disposable sex. In reality, hookups can be a powerful tool for pleasure, connection, healing and/or just plain old fun. ‘Summer of Love’ is a celebration of hookups at a unique moment in time, when people - long separated by a global pandemic - are starting to reconnect and explore erotic activities that were curtailed for more than a year. There is pent up demand for love, sex, pleasure and touch - and this series sets out to capture it authentically. In ‘Summer of Love’, we will see three real hookups with real New Yorkers in their real homes.” (2021)
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commissioned by himeros.tv
commissioned by himeros.tv
