Carla Cruz

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.