Unwanted in a space that is sometimes domestic or private, you confront a serious nude figure. I unfold my body in frontal, lascivious or gymnastic positions in a setting of lines and curves, from tiles to drapes, from the standardized plan of architecture to the volutes of plants. The figure defends herself from the performativity of her body, which she no longer wishes to achieve, or at least asks for a break.
In this suspended space, where the daily experience of the effeminate male body becomes possible, I translate into painting the traumatic, objectifying and toxic events that I have experienced. I thus replay these moments by the seductive or athletic staging of my body, designating myself this time winner of these fortuitous encounters with discrimination.
In a standoff between you, who are looking at the image of myself and I, in an artificial setting caught up with reality, you observe the fractured elements of a grand scene in which I would take back control of my body’s reception.