Virtual Pleasure

Virtual Pleasure is an oil painting with mixed and textured technique in which the figurative part shows a reclining woman, almost distorted, just as the pleasure she experiences is itself distorted. The sensory experience does not arise from a full relation with reality, but from a sensor placed over the eyes, introducing a fracture between body, perception and the truth of experience. The floating elements above the figure represent precisely that pleasure: intense, sought-after, seductive, yet ephemeral and ultimately fictitious. The work stages a contemporary condition in which desire can be artificially produced, relentlessly pursued and intensely felt, while remaining disconnected from an authentic relationship with the world.