Adriano Costa
I WATCH TV YOU WATCH TV WE WATCH TV, 2021
silkscreen on underwear elastics
variable dimensions
I WATCH TV YOU WATCH TV WE WATCH TV (2021) is a Minimalist-like installation of a single length of elastic band, the kind usually used in men’s underwear. Printed along...
I WATCH TV YOU WATCH TV WE WATCH TV (2021) is a Minimalist-like installation of a single length of elastic band, the kind usually used in men’s underwear. Printed along its entirety is a series of seemingly disconnected words: COWBOY, PET LOVER, RAPPER, TESTICLE PHOTOGRAPHER, DELIGHTFUL ALCOHOLIC. “I was watching an 80s tv show in which one of the characters is asked what kind of “fancy activity” they would like to do. I asked that same question to all my friends who work in the sex industry. Their answers are all on the tape. My favourite one is testicle photographer – it’s a very nice activity.” The humour in this work only temporarily conceals a more serious exercise that sees a marginalised, and certainly not-suitable-for-80s-television crowd give their own ideas of what an ideal “fancy activity” might be.