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SUSPENDED
DESIRE




Pornography focuses on the visuality of sex and cancels out the other senses. As a result, the viewer loses the need to imagine in order to fulfill desire through the mind. The literalness of these images reduces the mystery and enigma that have historically surrounded sexuality, replacing them with a perfectly coded semantic structure — standardized postures, faces, and expressions; genitals that become headless bodies; and stories devoid of meaning.
Suspended Desire is a series of oil paintings in which pornographic images appear blurred behind a perpetually frozen “loading” symbol. The series emerges as an opposition to the contemporary promise of high resolution offered by digital screens, inviting reflection on desire, absence, and the impossibility of complete visual satisfaction.