![Bruce Gallery, Rotterdam](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/bruce.jpg)
![derk](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/derk.jpg)
![eckart](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/eckart.jpg)
![joris](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/joris.jpg)
![navid](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/navid.jpg)
![peter](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/peter.jpg)
![dirk](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/2003_masculinity_cc.jpg)
![Bruce Gallery - Rotterdam](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/2003_the-inauthenticmale_-bruce.jpg)
![MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/img_5212_web.jpg)
![MNAC, 2017, photo by Aida Rechena](http://carlacruz.net/wp-content/gallery/the-inauthentic-male/img_5213_web.jpg)
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.