Porn, War, and Death.
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
THE ULTIMATE [LOVE FOR TECHNOLOGIES OF LOATHING]
THE ULTIMATE consists of dozens of performative scans. These images are self portraits triggered by an automated script. I performed over the course of several hours in front of an old scanner that allowed me to have one portrait produced in a scanning process of over thirty minutes in high resolution. The work addresses our contemporary culture of vicious consumption cycles: constant self-representation to self-loathing in the context of validation on repeat.
‘Porn is about the exposed life. Porn is the opponent of eros[…]. The obscene in porn is not about too much sex but the absence of sex. Today, sexuality isn’t threatened by the reasonable, which avoids sex as something dirty, but it’s threatened by pornography[…]the pornographization of the world reflects in its profanation. It profanes erotism.’
freely translated from the German original of Byung-Chul Han’s ‘The Agony of Eros’
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COLD SUN
Experimental video series based on public domain footage from nuclear weapon tests carried out by the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s.
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
Akosua (pronounced ‘A-koss-ya) Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland. Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through image-making, research, and human connection. She equally engages in documentary work and conceptual arts and has an active practice in the NFT and web3 space since early 2021, most notably with her project Behold The Ocean.
Published in LUX Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Bloomberg, npr, DerBund, Tagesanzeiger, Brytehall, and others.