Eric Saudi: Erotic Exotic

September 15 – October 20, 2025

Reception for the Artist
Sunday, September 15, 4:00 – 7:00 P.M.

Deforming and adorning and offending and adoring.

The page, the body and the wall are interlaced, they are inscribed with inner thoughts, defaced, adorned, cut and erased. 

People have been writing on the margins of text pages as far as writing goes back. You write on the margins to add context, often indicating a page that was skimmed or mulled over, the writing asks you to look back at the written text and reexamine it. While marginalia can add to the value of a copy of a book, it can also just as easily detract from that value, depending on the author of the marginalia and on the book. These works are an ode to marginalia writings, where the marginal takes on a life of its own, transforming pages from a standard mass-printed volume into uniquely personal objects. 

Image to word and word to image again, a wave consuming another wave, an active ocean margin.

Lena Youkhana

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From the mid-eighties to early aughts, Latino Fan Club produced pornographic images and videos that highlighted sexual fetishes ranging from foreskins to skin tones to unshaven bodies. NYC Puerto Rican actors showcased the urban clothing, mannerisms, and linguistic phrases of it’s producers and fanbase. In doing so, Latino Fan Club’s work also conveyed nuanced ideas of machismo; Phrases like “I’m not gay, but head is head”, for example, ran throughout the dialogue. Moreover, a broader background of the American Judicial system, gang-banging, class, and drug use demonstrated that fantasies are always tempered by the realities of living in New York City. 

Erotic Exotic is a collection of text-based works on the othered loving the othered—Exploring passing moments of love, time and exotica aesthetics.