Stuck? Click here
Part of my ongoing work on digital desire and repetition. Available in browser on
Kunstsurfer
from 1/10/2025 untill 30/10/2025
The text below was written by curator Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang for its presentation at Aksioma and appears here as part of its online exhibition on KUNSTSURFER, the browser-based art space that replaces ads with art.
In the niche corners of the internet lies the fetishized porn genre of “stuck,” where female bodies are wedged into sofas, office chairs or washing machines, immobilized for a fantasy of control-through-surrender.
Lotte’s artwork slows these clips down, suspending the moment before release. In doing so, it shifts attention away from sexual climax to the condition of being “stuck” itself, a metaphor for our entrapment in digital platforms.
Decelerating the pornographic loop reveals its kinship with compulsive infinite scrolling. Both hinge on embodied movement, where platforms inscribe their tempo into our bodies, short-circuiting our brains with hyperactive reward loops that manufacture desire and then amplify it.
This kind of desire doesn’t lead to genuine pleasure or release, but remains suspended, caught in feedback loops: a gooning by design, overstimulated, caught between anticipation and satisfaction.
By reframing “stuck” as online advertisements, hijacking the grammar of clickbait and banners, Stuck? Click Here parodies the economy of desire.
It reminds us that “stuck” is no longer just a fetish but a default mode of existence online, where even the promise of getting unstuck arrives in the form of self-help clickbait.