Maria Llopis

Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about lies in our sexual lives suddenly turns out to be a sharp discourse about gender theory and the continuous evolution of our identitiy. Fake Orgasm, first part of an ambitious multidisciplinary project about sexuality and identity, hits our minds and forces a change of perspective to reconsider some concepts we've been educated with and grown up with.

Constitué d’une série d'entretiens réalisés aux États-Unis, à Paris ou à Barcelone auprès d’artistes, théoriciennes, activistes queer, et de documents d’archives autour de l’action politique des travailleuses sexuelles et de performances d’un nouveau genre, « Mutantes » dessine les contours d’un féminisme, dont on a peu parlé en France, qui revendique une liberté sexuelle totale, à l’instar du mouvement féministe « pro-sexe » né dans les années 80 aux États-Unis.

Llopis’s narrator faces the camera and speaks to the audiences in a style closer to that of YouTube webcam confessional videos. The artist tells the story without verbal flourishes or excitement. There is nothing to arouse the audience. The speaker, young and boyish, tells us a story about how on her way to work she sees a lost Belgian tourist at the train station. She tells him that the trains have finished and invites him to spend the night with her, in the factory where she works as a night guard. She’s searching for any distraction from the pointless task of guarding property.

In Maria Llopis’ The Striptease of My Grandmother a series of stills of the filmmaker’s grandmother are combined with a first-person monologue by Llopis herself. The piece is a reflection on bodies, sexuality and age – putting at its centre the relationship between the two women and stressing the need for touch, care and affection.

In Maria Llopis’ The Striptease of My Grandmother a series of stills of the filmmaker’s grandmother are combined with a first-person monologue by Llopis herself. The piece is a reflection on bodies, sexuality and age – putting at its centre the relationship between the two women and stressing the need for touch, care and affection.

In Maria Llopis’ The Striptease of My Grandmother a series of stills of the filmmaker’s grandmother are combined with a first-person monologue by Llopis herself. The piece is a reflection on bodies, sexuality and age – putting at its centre the relationship between the two women and stressing the need for touch, care and affection.