Crop

(2020)

Crop is a photographic series composed of stills taken from pornographic films.

The work engages with the tension between human desire for intimacy, contemplation, and sexual fulfillment in nature, and the consumer-driven mechanisms of the adult industry. By re-contextualizing romantic motifs of escapism, the images are transformed into voyeuristic moments that reveal the violence and constructed nature of pornographic production.

The series reflects on the dual position of the viewer: both as a child and later as an adult, conditioned to normalize depictions of suffering, and as men socialized into reproducing it as a source of manufactured pleasure. Through the act of “cropping” – selecting and reframing screenshots – the work attempts to unlearn patriarchal structures of sexuality and to question the culture of desire shaped by the porn industry.