Joan Pallé

Taking as starting point the book Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl from TIQQUN, this project investigates phenomena related to sex-effective relationships in contemporary western urban societies; drawing links between the model of relations that we find in any European metropolis and the neoliberal economic model. In both cases, market freedom leads to excessive commercialism and a spirit of accumulation, both in the monetary aspect and in the accumulation of bodies.

The fact that mobile applications such as Job-today or Tinder use the same type of geolocation technology and the same business model points to a close relationship between productive work and intimate relationships. With any of these applications, a job  or a sporadic sexual relationship can be easily achieved; In both cases, the result is often just as precarious. 

Applying the use of financial language to the affections and bodies, the drawings show a schematization of the processes that lead to this terrible condition of the body as a commodity.