La Tortura

La Tortura (2006-2019) started during an extended stay in Buenos Aires. By photographing at random, I tried to make sense of queer desire in the streets of the Argentinian capital city. I later expanded the project to cover other cities around the world. The fast access to strangers in urban life forms a web of impossible interactions that the work seeks to document. The photos dialogue with the figure of the voyeur, a character who has lost moral authority but whose social observation have not yet disappeared. By calling desire torture, this series takes on white and heteronormative pressures that affect gay men, who mainly centre their desire on a particular archetype of men. In contrast, they are the ones to be victims of surveillance, censorship or, possibly, punishment.