Brazilian artist Felipe Cama's pixelated porn creations remind us of the days when we used to trawl for smut on a poky 28k modem and more often than not had to settle for drooling over blocky, indistinct images before they were completely downloaded (yes, we were that desperate in the mid 90s)—except many of his images aren't derived from porn pictures at all, but from classic nudes from artists like Van Gogh, Modigliani, and Lucien Freud:
Felipe starts his research questioning the porno images that always loaded our digital mail box. How are they produced, spreaded, who consumes it? ... "My work emerges from this images that I receive in my e-mail. Through a special software developed for this purpose I achive the binary code of a jpeg image. From this 1 and 0 sequency, something like the digital DNA I get this constructivists geometry images where you don't know if they came from the porno or the original classics paintings."
And the funny thing? They still end up being sexier and more interesting than a lot of the actual porn images that flicker across our screens every day. Either we're starting to get jaded in our old age, or we miss that 28k modem a lot more than we thought.
· Felipe Cama (felipecama.com, via sexblo.gs)
· Felipe Cama @ Galeria Leme, Sao Paolo (galerialeme.com)
Previously: Oddly Sexy Art By Japi Honoo, Sexy Digital Art by No Para Innita, Hot Vector Babes, Randy Trap: Exposures, Prints by Adam Connelly,