The Slip
11 de jun de 2025
Kinky Room brings together works by Katinka Huang, Julio Le Parc, Syd Krochmalny, and Natacha Voliakovsky in an immersive installation where desire, performance, and queer intimacy unfold through materials, light, and bodies. In this sensual, ironic, and theatrical environment, each piece operates like a scene within an alternative nightclub—a space of affective intensity, visual pleasure, and erotic imagination.
Kinky Room is an imaginary nightclub. Not for its sound system, but for the pulse that emanates from every work: flickering lights, transitory bodies, overflowing desire. Julio Le Parc’s optical device functions here as a silent dancefloor, a kinetic structure generating psychedelic light effects—artificial yet hypnotic—echoing the trance of the party.
At the center, Golden Shower plays ambiguously between eye and sex, between vision and penetration. Its golden slit evokes both a vulva and a dilated pupil, and within it, a small image of Syd Krochmalny appears posing as a stripper on a vintage flyer addressed to women. The gaze returns eroticized, theatrical, self-parodic.
Another piece, made from the fabric of a drag queen’s garment, creates a miniature theatrical stage where the artist presents himself headless, offering his body to spectacle and consumption. This figure reappears in All the World’s a Stage—a title referencing Shakespeare—yet instead of classical tragedy, we’re taken to a mixed-gender party in the Buenos Aires suburbs: a Luis Miguel song, a striptease act, a young man cross-dressed as a monk and another as a waiter, opening the night with a suggestive choreography.
Katinka Huang’s Cuddles evokes the molly-fueled intimacy of raves—synthetic affection, expanded touch, ephemeral kinship. In this context, Natacha Voliakovsky’s anatomical drawings function as internal maps: impossible anatomies, fragments of pleasure and resistance, bodies opened by ecstasy or surgery, where the intimate becomes manifest.
Kinky Room is not just a space of desire—it is a performative zone, a queer visual choreography, a site of social and sensual tension. Here, pleasure becomes a form of politics, and politics, a form of celebration. Where to look is to touch, and queerness becomes a method of knowing.