Eroticism can be provocative, but it also tends toward discretion. This pilgrimage to the most secret recesses of desire and the forbidden explores erotic works shrouded in symbolism - and sometimes literally locked behind closed doors.
Futuristic fantasy and erotic fantasy are often indistinguishable. A journey that jumps through time, allowing us to explore a future full of erotic machines and eerily human woman-bots.
The connections between death and the erotic have fascinated artists for a very long time. Petite mort, danse macabre, tragic romance, dead bodies - dark eroticism provokes thought by exploring the uneasy boundary between life and death.
We often talk about sex in terms of love games. This journey around the world presents the work of artists who take a playful approach to the erotic, treating it as a true exercise in pleasure.
The representation of the body is central to erotic art. To follow the evolution of art through the centuries is to follow shifts in the idea of beauty. We meet artists who are reinventing our perception of the body and the erotic.