ARTICLES ET PORTFOLIOS CV75
PORTFOLIO - Rafael Goldchain, Familial Ground
Familial Ground is the product of a process that started several years ago when Rafael Goldchain’s son was born. Goldchain gradually realized that his new role as parent included the responsibility to pass on a familial and cultural inheritance.
The varieties of Goldchain experience
It occurred to me recently that my fascination with photographic albums may be due in part to the fact that my family never kept one: we were box-in-drawer people, my mother making good use of packaging for notepaper and Christmas cards to keep some order in our small photographic hoard.
PORTFOLIO - Orlan, Pre-Columbian self-Hybridations
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
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Comprendre les Self-Hybridations d’Orlan nécessite de retourner en amont de celles-ci, au cœur des plus controversées de ses œuvres : la série de performances La réincarnation de Sainte-Orlan.
Le visage comme tableau
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. - Read the Abstract
Comprendre les Self-Hybridations d’Orlan nécessite de retourner en amont de celles-ci, et au cœur des plus controversées de ses œuvres : la série de performances La réincarnation de Sainte-Orlan.
PORTFOLIO - Paul Litherland, Absolutely Fabulous
In Absolutely Fabulous, Paul Litherland playfully constructs stereotypical gender identities in himself, only to deconstruct them and raise his viewers’ awareness of cultural biases. The ten works that constitute this series evolved from a 1993 performance, Souvenirs.
Straight queerness and Alternative Models for Manhood
Wearing a tight, hot-pink jersey-knit dress with a scoop neckline that reveals a thick pelt of chest hair, photographer Paul Litherland poses coyly for the viewer in a sky-blue-lit studio for half of his self-portrait series, Absolutely Fabulous.1
