Motels/Hotels: between the familiar and the uncanny
Abstract
The visual stimulus that motivated this research was the insinuating ambiguity of the letters m/h. Less glamourous than the roadside ones, the motel-hotels are a cheap invitation to an experience of sexual fulfillment. In order to comprehend its material and intangible complexity, the work was built as fiction. The narrator invented a potential that could reveal in the motel-hotels other parts embedded on her, as if these places, for being ambiguous and disguised, allowed this to happen. In a simultaneous process of liberation and frustration, the multiple narrators act on themselves.
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