from:
Laura Makabresku
Tag: sex
The Embrace / l’Étreinte / 懷抱
The Embrace
By Ana Urquilla, Visual Artist, El Salvador
In his drawings The Embrace, from the series Dirty Dirty Love, Reuben Negrón allows his public to enter into one of the most private of realms, a couple’s intimacy. He bares his images naked of any superfluous detail, so that we can focus entirely on the hypnotizing silence of two bodies meeting. We are transformed into the voyeuristic eye that cannot help but stare and be amazed by how this couple craves to become one. Yet, we stay put in this space, not because we seek for some sort of free sexual gratification, but because we find pleasure in another’s ability to share themselves so openly and completely. Sex moves beyond being a simple act of intercourse and becomes a possibility to feel and know one another, to hold one’s partner as if the love was so profound it could consume. In this discovery, sex loses all its scandalous implications and transforms, in the mind of the spectator, into an act of pure love. Negrón is able to capture the magic of this moment so convincingly that he engraves the images in our subconscious and makes us question if we are so lucky to have what the couple portrayed shares.
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The Embrace I, 30 x 22 inches, 2007
The Embrace II, 30 x 22 inches, 2008
The Embrace III, 30 x 22 inches, 2008
The Embrace IV, 30 x 22 inches, 2009
The Embrace V, 30 x 22 inches, 2009
The Embrace VI, 30 x 22 inches, 2009
The Embrace VII, 30 x 22 inches, 2009
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from:
reuben negron gallery
sans titre / untitled / 无题
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Chess Set / Jeu d’échecs / 国际象棋
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from:
Kiki de Montparnasse
Les Pénétrés / The Penetrated / 插入
EL Torax, Terrassa, Spain.
October 12th, 2008
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First act: 10 white race men penetrated 10 white race women.
Premier acte: 10 hommes de race blanche pénétré 10 femmes de race blanche.
第一幕: 10位男性白人插入10位女性白人.
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Second act: 9 white race men penetrated 9 white race men.
Deuxième acte: 9 hommes de race blanche pénétré 9 hommes de race blanche.
第二幕: 9位男性白人插入9位男性白人.
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Third act: 3 white race men penetrated 3 black race women.
Troisième acte: 3 hommes de race blanche pénétré 3 femmes de race noire.
第三幕: 3位男性白人插入3位女性黑人.
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Fourth act: 7 white race men penetrated 7 black race men.
Quatrième acte: 7 hommes de race blanche pénétré 7 hommes de race noire.
第四幕: 7位男性白人插入7位男性黑人.
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Fifth act: 3 black race men penetrated 3 black race women.
Cinquième acte: 3 hommes de race noire pénétré 3 femmes de race noire.
第五幕: 3位男性黑人插入3位女性黑人.
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Sixth act: 5 black race men penetrated 5 black race men.
Sixième action: 5 hommes de race noire pénétré 5 hommes de race noire.
第六幕: 5位男性黑人插入5位男性黑人.
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Seventh act: 8 black race men penetrated 8 white race women.
Septième loi: 8 hommes de race noire pénétré 8 femmes race blanche.
第六幕: 8位男性黑人插入8位女性白人.
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Last act: 10 black race men penetrated 10 white race men.
Dernier acte: 10 hommes de race noire pénétré 10 hommes race blanche.
終場: 10位男性黑人插入10位男性白人.
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from:
Santiago Sierra