The work I’ve done can relate to some ideas in porn culture (term used by Naief Yehya to define everything encompassed in the pornographic industry) and I am interested in knowing how this visual stimulation works on people.

Watch My Porn proposes a mechanism in which the visual stimulation elicits a sexual trance, which begs the question of how and where my own trance originates (or someone else’s).

In the project, which I opened for close friends to participate voluntarily, a specific atmosphere was proposed: I asked them to get naked while they answered some questions like: do you like porn? what’s your opinion on porn? how do you live your sexuality? do you talk about sex in public? how important do you think sexual education is in Mexico? do you think porn helps or improves society when it comes to staying informed when it comes to  sexual education? how or which are the stimuli you consider fundamental to your sexuality?

As they answered a photographic and auditory record was made of what happened. I asked each person to choose a video or two from a list to watch after while I photographed their nudity with the possibility of interacting with themselves through masturbation or whatever they considered part of their trance, like dance.

After that I fabricated a series of installations based on photographs, paintings, texts and audio that represent an approximation to that which could be considered the trance.

The result with each person was very different, some participants saw it as a therapeutic atmosphere, other as a device of sexual self-discovery. As for me, in an environment of tension and awkwardness, the intimate-observed nudity became known, detonating or containing different motivations that only made themselves present in each person’s imagination.