2023
Grand Theft Auto (commonly abbreviated as GTA) is an open-world action-adventure video game series in which the player controls an outlaw and his rise in organized crime.
The video game exaggerates concepts such as hyper masculinity and violence, and while being a parody of them, it goes on to reinforce and cement a number of issues such as homophobia and transphobia. In this sense, Dagani Rio intervenes by reclaiming and reappropriating the video game, creating a new narrative among the characters.
Los Santos (a city based on Los Angeles, in which GTA is set) becomes the setting for a new queer narrative, with gay romances between the original protagonists of the series, as in a kind of Santa Barbara-style soap opera. The main characters are transformed and new images are created based on screenshots from the video game and new keywords in line with a new narrative (queer, gay, love,...), through artificial intelligence machine learning, which is based on a new storytelling that is composed like a homoerotic photostory.