After the thrill is gone

Text by Transito Ceballos

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Already quite shown, what is courageous about making the intimate something viral? Finding those foreign fragments, scattered and common on the screens, is no longer a novelty. Now any device endowed with a minimum amount of pixels suffices to infect the hedonistic alter-ego that finds pleasure in everything it shares.

The strength of After the Thrill is Gone, on the other hand, does not lie in the veracity of its images, nor does it seek to focus the eyes on a meticulous and documentary style. Rather, it is nourished by a delicate number of everyday situations, deranged to the point of irremediable fiction.

In this way Francisco Javier Ramirez's photographs manage to frame the subtle portrait with firm testimony, that even with the evidence of altered bodies and memories, pale charms can be evoked. Nostalgia poured into objects with a latent sexuality.

Without any fear of representation of the intimate space, this work is carried out with a brave aesthetic suggesting a free narrative, through a sober and vulnerable gaze.