Still Bright
Still Bright extracts halos from gay pornography and replicates them digitally. Halos recur in original porn footages, digital replicas and isolated layers. It reveals how they are structured within digital media and prompts a reflection on the aesthetic strategies and emotional narratives embedded in gay pornographic works. No longer merely an optical aberration, the halo becomes an affective threshold, where intimacy and fantasy disperse through light and lens.
The halo emerges as a romantic fantasy. Within these optical residues, queer desire is partly fulfilled but also deferred, suspended in the afterglow. By chasing, borrowing and replicating readymade halo imagery, Still Bright entangles queer sex and intimacy with presence and absence, the scripting and mimicry of desire.