Abstract
Ulises, Gaseous Body is a series of works that speak to the vulnerability of the body. The installation recreates spaces from the men’s sauna Ulises, a cruising site that peaked in popularity during the 1990s and remains active today.
The wall features a photograph of the sauna’s lockers, intervened with latex torsos, towels, and condoms. The towels come from the sauna itself and are treated with mineral pigments to leave traces of transient, fugitive, and fragile bodies. The mask, for its part, “refers to the body subjected to forces of desire—to the instant, the limit, and the risk of the warrior.” Taken as a whole, the work pays tribute to the victims of the AIDS epidemic.
Citation
Lozano, David. 1996. 'Ulises, cuerpo gaseoso [Ulises, Gaseous Body]'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/art/ACOL023/
