Recordings V employs intimate encounter photography to document peak moment of joy—orgasmic ecstasy with male lover collected and revealed on light-sensitive paper. Rey transforms sexual experience into photographic artifact, where condom and bodily fluids become visual record of sporadic passionate encounter. The work materializes intimacy's ephemeral climax as permanent image, creating archive of desire where each photogram preserves specific moment shared with different men passing through artist's life.
Recordings is a collection series of experiences with different men who have passed through my life sporadically. During this process, I collect the peak moment of joy, the ecstasy of orgasm, on a light-sensitive sheet of paper, which is later revealed and recorded.
Intimate encounter photography documenting orgasmic peak moments—bodily fluids revealed on photosensitive paper. Recordings V by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Intimate Encounter Photography – Recordings V by Javier Rey
Recordings V, 2015
From Recordings Series
Archival pigment print, Color Edition
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Fine art print (giclée)
Javier Rey is a Colombian artist and photographer. His work has been shown in many collective exhibitions, solo exhibitions, and several international art fairs such as ArtLima (Peru), Scope Art Fair (Miami), and La Feria Del Millón (Colombia). Rey's work has also appeared in books such as "Unlocked", by the Greek collective Atopos, and was chosen as one of the 145 most relevant visual artists and photographers on the web in 2015. His work have been featured in several publications in Colombia, the USA, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and other countries.
