Transplant
2020
Transplant, 2020.
Digital colour photographs 20×14 cm, frame 30×40 cm.
Photo paper Creative Fibre Nature, matte, 210g.
Transplant is the result of a ritual in which masculinity is built through the gender technologies that our social environment provides us.
It’s a photographic piece with a performative nature in which our faces show off a beard created from the other’s shaved hair. The beard is presented as a physical characteristic with strong social and cultural connotations, and which is traditionally attributed to the virility and strength of cisgender men.
We take over hegemonic masculinity to transform it into a transgressive masculinity characteristic of the abject, the failed, that masculinity that is where, as a rule, it should not exist.
By transplanting the other person’s hair, we create a dissident masculinity based on the idea of the construct, showing the plurality that exists around it, also asking ourselves how it operates in non-hegemonic bodies.
We make the virility characteristics ours, questioning the supposed purity and naturalness of gender and the binary system. We reflect about our masculinity as AMAN (assigned female at birth) people and read our own experience as something collective, transplanting it into political space.