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The factory and sex (2025)
english | castellano
The Factory and Sex is a visual and experimental essay that reflects on the relationships
between sex, its representations, and the power framework in which they are generated,
focusing on female porn workers and their status as the ‘proletariat of the sex industry’
in the Italian socio-political context, as well as the quality of pornography as an
‘obscene epitome’ but inserted into the hegemonic Western visual system.
The essay has a triangular structure based on the concepts of pornography,
pornocracy and pornification, which engage in dialogue with porn understood
as part of the sexual revolution and countercultural phenomenon; with
the development of the traditional porn industry in Italy (focusing especially
on figures such as Moana Pozzi and Cicciolina, who became a member of
parliament in 1987 with the Partito Radicale); and the spectacularisation of
politics fuelled by Berlusconi and the development of the concept of the
“obscenification” of the world, which runs parallel to the rise of the
new far right to power in various countries, including Italy.
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Bodies of production
State of distress (2018-2019)
keywords
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pornography
representation criticism
body social construction
contexto político
Italia
trabajo sexual
