In this incendiary scene, Haniel Fonseca pays tribute to the visual language of German Expressionism and cult cinema through an abject and peripheral gaze. Inspired by Jerome Witkin’s New York Movie (itself in dialogue with Edward Hopper), the painting transposes the introspective sensibility of classic cinema into a space of transgression: the Savoy Cinema, one of Mexico City’s oldest porn theaters.

At the center of the image, a golden Sputnik emerges like a discovery—transformed into a cosmic eye resting within a crater shaped like an anus. This symbolic core articulates a visceral metaphor about vision, desire, and the limits of the body, recalling Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye. Around it unfolds a cast of non-normative bodies: transhuman, post-operative, fetishized, or simply excluded from hegemonic corporeal grammar. The composition resists hierarchy; it’s a simultaneity of events—a freak periphery in a state of combustion where pleasure, ruin, and ritual coexist.

The red hues—evoking a Martian industrial hell—accentuate the alienated, and indeed alien, nature of these bodies. The painting interrogates not only physical normativity but spatial politics as well: the suburban, the marginal, and the freakish are presented as zones of resistance against the biopolitical control of life.