IANTEVO

Mercenario – Serie IV 

Digital photography

90×60 cm

36 Photographs 

2019-ACT

These photographic images are associated with memories of couples’ encounters in passage rooms. One could perhaps attempt a cartography or, better yet, a typology of the room frequented. One intervenes physically in the rooms that I portray. The situation is nourished and complexified by the smooth and limpid introduction of photographic images of couples having sex, as inserts inside the room to compose within the frame. 

The introduced images have been printed on a variety of media, and within the frame they constitute a membrane of suspended time. When the image of the room is printed, the photographic inserts change in nature and act as thresholds: they suggest the fictional component, something that could come from the past but also that endlessly metamorphoses before our eyes, and eludes us with each reading we try to make. It is as if it were possible to confuse the times of desire and condense the dynamics of desire in the act in a box of constructed present that photographically finds a bounded location within the four walls of the room. 

This substitute for the present is capable of denying the authentic past of the shot in order to manifest desire, transforming the geometry of the room into an additional fiction.