dimensions
pages
in collaboration with
21 x 28 cm
73 pages
Axelle Virique
2020
qui nettoiera la piscine en septembre?
A tenderly injunctive gesture, the long summer days are places where thought wanders. The body is slow, everything looks the same. It doesn't entirely resemble a man, it doesn't entirely resemble a holiday. Boredom is a source of strangeness, the construction of an identity in a popular milieu too. What is the masculine when it only translates into the gaze of others?
Drag is a practice of deconstruction and reconstruction. A performance of research and mimetic repetition. According to Renate Lorenz, anything that is subject to subjectivization can become a drag figure. You'll be a drag king my clown. Everyday life can become a theatrical performance when a person assigned as a man finds himself having to prove it within the space in which he evolves. The popular milieu and the sister will wrap themselves in the repressive figure of the masculinity cop, and will ask us the question of the original and his drag, in a vernacular performative scene, according to their interaction with our protagonist.