Consumption
May 2024
By Fabian Luevanos and Tamara Benarroch
"tell me how distasteful i am, in all my abstraction and uncertainty i beg for your honesty, please just be honest with me, i know i can’t hide my bitterness, i confess it lingers within me, what you witness isn’t ripe, i have lost my familiarity, do you not grow tired of my face- of my limbs- of my wretchedness, does it not all leave a sour taste on your lips, please, just leave me open as i am, that's all i could ask for, please just let me be."
"During the concept process, I knew I wanted to replicate the manner in which I sleep. I am wrapped in my own sheets intertwined with my own body. The focus was how in my own cruel delight, I make myself as small as I physically can because I don’t want to take others' space. The sequence is an example of how I feel of my existence, that maybe I was meant to bend to others. How could I neglect our collective existence? It’s all so much, too much. I’m unable to accept comfort from nothing else but my own delusions.
I pray that my shame purifies me."
- Fabian Luevanos