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PLUSEITIM Manifesto
PLUSEITIM is an unabashed desire to practice, appreciate and validate pornography as art. It arises from affection, friendship, collectors and artists who enjoy the same. It appreciates bodies in their diversity, libertarian politics, consent, the subject and its relative discourses that need to be appropriated by loving and auspicious artists. PLUSEITIM was born in the dry terrain of the Brazilian savannah, as a desire and enjoyment of its time. It recalls a romantic relative, from 19th century literature, the "plus ultra" – to a beyond. To a sum, an immanence of sexuality, liberating, libertine and libertarian; liber .
It is not the cornerstone of anything, but rather a partner in so many other efforts that promote human sexuality in Brazil and around the world. Not through prohibition, violence, war or the morbid and hypocritical dominant normative morality. We are talking here about a consensual sexuality, whose plus is freedom – individual, mutual and collective. We want art that integrates lust in its various forms, and this is the only guiding thread of our curation: it has to be made with lust, for lust . Because, without lust, as Roberto would say, there is no solution . Lust runs through the veins of each work presented here and it needs to be that way to be art.
PLUSEITIM was born in Brazil, decentralized and independent. Committed to a subjectivity and an erotic capacity for becoming that signifies youth and crowns maturity. It is anthropophagous, Brazilianized, brutalist, native, contradictory, cute and ordinary. Because these lands of the Southern Cross are magical, tropical, hot and naughty territory. And just like its fruits: oblique and disguised. A roguish art that belches the last dinner in academic tones and acts as courageous as the waters of a waterfall.
We believe in freedom, democracy, independent artists, anarchic spirituality and an exuberant aesthetic. The product of multiple lovers and affairs, we continue to share our curious truths. We grew up in families, to the scent of rutting beasts that live around us, sharing pain, joy, kisses and warm hugs. Something in our essence points to the forest, to diversity – we are not, nor do we believe in sanitized deserts. We are lazy about that. We are dense forest! And it is within the forest that we meet God, Deise and all the enchanted ones that (co)inhabit here. It is all there in plain sight, you just have to give in to your eyes and desires to believe. And that is art in PLUSEITIM.
About the Virtual Gallery
PLUSEITIM is a virtual gallery conceived by the artist the Holy Enemy of Evil. This is a space to celebrate eroticism and pornography with creative freedom and essential strength. Usually, a distinction is made by placing pornography as an inferior, immoral, harmful type of art, etc. This is an etymological prejudice that reveals a process of social exclusion based on a moral hegemony. Our curation focuses on works that validate lust and pornography as legitimate artistic expressions, defending a consensual, libertarian, homoerotic and diverse sexuality. More than a marketplace, it is a platform for aesthetic resistance and the affirmation of desire as an emancipatory force.