Projects
Bruce Gallery, Rotterdam Bruce Gallery, Rotterdam derk derk eckart eckart joris joris navid navid peter peter dirk dirk Bruce Gallery - Rotterdam Bruce Gallery - Rotterdam MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena

The Inauthentic Male

Accepting an invitation to present work at the Bruce Gallery , Rotterdam, with a predefined theme – Masculinity – led me to the production of this work. For the project – Meet the Artist – Bruce Gallery after seeing my work on femininity challenged me to work on masculinity. The project was to last a month, being the 2 first weeks of preparation/conceiving the exhibition should already be open to the public.

I then set myself to meet the public and invited men that passed by the gallery to come in and talk about masculinity. A small interview was made and I took note of the answers. At the end of the interview I set a new challenge. Could I, for the purpose of having my picture taken, wear what they had on?

Therefore the result was a series of pictures of me in men’s clothes, underneath each of the photographs were the answers given by the owner of the clothes on masculinity.