Fuente Perversa

N.A.S.A.L. invites you to a guided tour with the artist Aileen Gavonel.

Perversion is understood as an irreverent attitude towards the usual customs and order of things. Perversion is an environment of resistance, of lucid awareness towards the mechanisms of the world's disenchantment. Inhabited by distorted images that are only waiting to be transformed into matter in order to bite the identitary reality.

The perverse is everything that departs from the canons of law and that is why power demonizes it. It uses it to generate strategies of production of the different and the consequent criminalization. Perversion, whether of the image or of the body, is the alterity and disorder of the state of the world. It acts in the cracks and opacity. We claim the right to opacity, the need for everyone to be neither completely transparent nor assigned to incomprehensibility. Opacity is the interstice, the threshold of understanding that is never concluded, the redemption of the obviousness of transparency and imposed dichotomies. Opacity is the suspicion that allows us to imagine a body of rotting, transforming and untranslatable images.

Therefore, we imagine a source of perversion, a humid underworld of murky waters and coexistence between expelled species. A source made of matter understood as living energy, a pulsating matrix that bilaterally negotiates its polymorphous forms with the human and the monstrous, constituting itself as agent subject and matter of the world. Matter that becomes a context for relational transmutations, unorthodox thoughts and excessive subjectivities.

Accompanied by a crocodile girl - a contemporary Charon who nevertheless transports those destined to wander restlessly through the mists of the river - we enter the viscera of a story dictated by multiple times. We plunge into the bowels of an intestinal thought capable of digesting differences and their relations without producing satisfactory or material syntheses. We are shipwrecked in a perverse water that dilutes our reasons and compacts our desires. We swim in subterranean forces, connective and deep, substrates for an existence that does not flee to the sky, but reconnects with immanence. We swim, unprotected, in a viscous liquid to reach our Fuente Perversa (Perverse Source).

— Matteo Binci