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Erotic Album

2025 - ongoing

Album with collages, drawings and photography. Collaboration with Berlin Nocturnes (Madhvi Ramani and Lutz Gallmeister), who created the sound poetry and the music.

Book version to come out later in 2025.

Erotic Album is a visual and sonic project exploring eroticism as a vital, creative life force that flows through the body and beyond. Aligned with Audre Lorde’s writing in Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, the project reclaims the erotic as a deep source of energy, intuition, and connection—not confined to sexuality, but present throughout the universe.

My contribution, which accompanies 11 tracks — each dedicated to a specific body part — unfolds across three visual layers. The macro level draws from a wide array of archival public domain imagery: from natural phenomena and historical illustrations to anatomical fragments and symbolic cultural references. These visuals propose a reimagined, expansive eroticism rooted in the world around us. The micro layer features surreal photographic self-portraits and intimate images of natural objects—fruits, flowers, and organic forms—that I find sensually resonant. These are personal reflections on desire, perception, and embodiment. Bridging these poles are expressive drawings and sketches that merge abstraction with sensuality, forming a connective tissue between the cosmic and the personal.

Together, these images act as a visual atlas—echoing Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne—where recycled and recontextualized imagery reveals new meanings. Erotic Album invites viewers to expand their sense of the erotic: not as spectacle, but as a poetic, animating force that touches all aspects of life.

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