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OKAY turns into a Queer-Club's Dark-Room at midnight this Friday and invites you to attend and experience Super Gonorrhea's first solo show.
Super Gonorrhea aka George Ouzounis is a digital artist working with 3D modeling and rendering on the themes of contemporary emotional and physical alienation while drawing from feminist and posthuman discourses reflecting on currently rising amalgamations of nature, technology and culture. Three years after concluding his architecture studies, with two theses that represented its theoretical and methodological roots, Super Gonorrhea's first solo exhibition introduces us to the processing of his social experiences around sexuality and eroticism through his artistic practice. It captures intimacy folding along the queer Athenian identity right at the vanishing point of bewilderment.
Carnal collapse after 3 a.m. is a collection of nine stills, two videos and a sculpture that pause right against the argument between glorification and criticism to reveal how fetishization and identification create circuits for desire in culture by cruising the realms of digital, material and biological. It is a testimony about romance in an individualistic, altered cognition and narco-capitalistic environment and it approaches the quest for emancipation in love as a cybernetic practice. It pays tribute to the moments we give in to our absolute physical demands and lose ourselves in futility as we break free from the heteronormative models in search for self-awareness.
Even though the complexities in queer politics revolve around validation, Super Gonorrhea sheds light on the unresolved situation of subjectivity and sharpens the obscurity in which many of us are hanging. While an iconology on these images would have plenty of material to work with, the compositions are full of quietness. The rational white male able human body of capitalism is the dominant mirror of our otherness and consequently the ever-present form to signify castration. Super Gonorrhea brings the politics of online dating in art to depict appropriation as response and resistance for all the times we cannot offer a novel answer, to underline the importance of subversion for us to sustain our continuity, to emphasize on the first step towards empowerment; tolerance.
Solo show
Super Gonorrhea
Curation: Captain Stavros
Curatorial statement: Khares Tokatlidis
Thanks to
Miltos Digkas, Hydrama, Reject aka LEX, Emma Pálos, Ksenia Dania, Eirini Bouliou