FAGGOT—

2022

Painting on/-
Ceramic tiles/-
On wood panels.
250 x250 cm

Work for sale - reach out via email if interested.

Through my personal take on the art form of tiles, I wanted to glorify minorities in a post modern way with the traditional Portuguese azulejos. The idea was to create an azuleijo mural suitable for our era. To detach the work from the wall and placing it on the floor symbolises how fragile the concept of masculinity ultimately is. Boys have been told that being «man» means being tough, that it is all about hunting and being in control. By constantly repressing their emotions and giving in to the systematic violence expected from them, they slowly become victims of their own status. locentric society through an all men orgy: Today powerful men flattering each other and deciding over women and oppressed minorities lives.

The cis male gaze forbidding any so called «femininity». The toxic cis gay hate towards everything not fully «masculine». In short, men not rising any higher than slightly above the surface. However, elevating themselves from this societal mass grave while emulating the revolutionary figure of Marianne, we observe the oppressed minorities penetrating the higher spheres. Queer men (in my eyes meaning deconstructed non heteronormative men), transgender people, POCs head towards a god-like vulva figure. God is woman, time to break free from archaic structures.