Barcelona – Erika Lust has built a career at the intersection of art and erotic. So it is not surprising that after the Traillater of the feminist pornography, he would continue to push the boundaries of the medium. His last action, Erik Lust House (2024), it is an extensive installation of immersal artwork that mix virtual reality and an increase in reality, on an adventure trip selected by visitors through his film film.
“On the internet, the porn is queen, but there is no place to do in real life,” Lust said. “I think it is fascinating to put it as a sexual shared experience in an artistic environment. With VR, you are not only seeing a movie; you are living.”
He entered the Lust Industry in 2004 when he premiered his first film, A good girl – Feminist mischievous “pizza delivery guy” in the Plotline Infamous, freaking the script focusing on the development of his / her female lead and nature. Erika Lust Films founded the main advocate of a new type of porn type that developed popularity soon: erotic, but not heteronized, artistic, but not unwanted.
Unlike many porns found online, Lust’s work prioritizes realistic representations of women’s pleasure – to deal with issues such as limits and permit while drawing out experiences with intense inspiration. One of its most popular series, Xconfessions (Continuous 2013), the audience again interpret real sexual fantasies presented in anonymous way. It is the first thing to find the visitors’ meeting Erik Lust HouseIt is currently revealed 24 hours before viewing a secret place in the Poillenou district of Barcelona.
At the entrance, I delivered a masquerade mask and pushed me to check the door for my inhibitions. Then I entered the first room where a rotary bunch Xconfessions The films are projected against the remote wall. My favorite is Stoya’s shipping, with the name “Dick for a day” (2023) – in which it looks like, well a day.
Next is VR experience, I’m equipped with headphone and releases in a virtual lease Sleep more (2011-25). Each room has interactive elements: A portrait is transforming a porn scene with a wave of hand; Rubbing a mirror mist, shows a couple having sex. In the library, I take a book out of the shelf – only to open his pages and start playing one of the films of lewd.
I am not the only look: there are 20 or others moving around the space, visible only like opaque shapes of man. We have no face, so it is impossible to identify who I walk to me, but I can see the couples embracing, tied the transparent hands together. Visitors have five minutes to explore each “floor” before the shifts of the landscape, and the arrow keys us to the next adventure.
On the second and third floors, more interactive rooms are waiting. One, I put his head in a giant Orb and lead to 360 degrees warehouse, where men and women love in a circle around me. In another, the marble sculpture is left, and after that, it explodes in small pieces, each playing another scene. There is a dungeon, and the door that says “doesn’t seem”. When you do it, a BDSM scene reveals the key hole, where Dominatrix gives a harsh leather. Between smacks, he checks with his submissive, asking, “Is it okay?” Realistically Kink Dynamics’s attention is a distinctive work of lewdness, offering a narrative anti-realistic expectations of the main porns.
Erik Lust House It offers three setting for guests: erotic, explicit, or “surprised me,” a mixture between the two. “Explanation is full: you’ll see everything,” Lust said. “Erotic is soft – you don’t have to see penis and vagina if that’s not your account. And” surprise me “- well I can’t say!”
After exploring the “erotic” setting, I take another round about the implementation of explicit this time. Changes are subtle, when a penis had been touched more than once, or the ability to pull a string to reveal a new dungeon scene. After that, I pass again “surprised me” – but I am not surprised, except when I interact with objects that do not respond. I’m enjoying experience, but I want more varieties between settings.
A recent room offers a screening of the most important films of the 360-degree film, with seats scattered by forming a gallery style. Couples bow to each other’s shoulders to see the fucking of strangers; Artistic cities show the aesthetic potential of sex. It is the most confrontaging of the room because there are few plausible denials: we are quite sitting together and seeing the porn, not necessarily the type we can choose for us.
The facility has many genres and sexualities, offering a window into the erotic imagination of other people. “It’s an individual experience, because everyone chooses their career through home,” he said. “But it is also a collective experience because we are all in the same space.”
In this sense, Lust’s exhibition returned to the Golden Golden Golden Agent – when strangers gathered in film rooms to see movies in 35 millimeters. This return of public vision has arrived when adult content is increasingly censored. After legislation like Fosta-Sesta, they signed sexual traffic in 2018, but they risk sexual staff. The platforms crack adult content to prevent the materials of the different colors that cross the crack. And at the absence of pleasure-oriented sex education, younger generations go to pornography for sexual information.
It is a cultural background that informs the work of Lusta. His mission is not to get people alone – it’s about getting thinking. It believes that pornography should be interpreted like any other film: as a cultural product with aesthetic and conceptual weight, which is able to complete our desires and WorldView. And with it Erik Lust HouseThe audience invites you to link to sexuality because they would do any other artistic means: critically, curious and shameless.
Since its premiered, the exhibition has become a well-known couple and the girls’ nights, asking them to reflect on their relationship with pornography. “Many people still feel embarrassed around sex. It’s hard to talk about that, and think it’s something that is forbidden,” he said. “Listening to what I love most of people starting conversations about sex – interviews that have never been.”
