“Techniques of the Narcissist” is a multichannel video installation based on a series of video-performances. The different pieces display an assemblage of body images, poses and body postures. The work pays tribute to the massive repetition of physical gestures at a worldwide scale and to the surfeit and disposability of these images.

Taken from a variety of sources—art history, anatomy, science, porn, fashion, queer culture and social media—the imagery is detached from its original context. A subjective -call it narcissistic- view places it in a larger diagram. The body reveals the images as a technology that exists previous to human embodiment. A system where culture, biology and aesthetics converge.

Every video-performance was produced independently. The visual elements are diverse as it is the camera approach. In some of the pieces, the emphasis is on the frame, the technical constitution of the scene and the role of the eye. In others, the aim is to foreground the qualities of the performative act. The physical effort deployed and usage of time. Sometimes, the body is fully visible, in others, the camera penetrates to a level where the shape becomes abstract. These combined perspectives are an invitation to observe the many universes coexisting in the equation body+image.