In Western, neoliberal and affectively charged societies, the body has become a medium for self-presentation. It is an object that wants to be shaped and formed, albeit under the dictates of social ideas and norms of recognizability, beauty, success, performance orientation and invulnerability.
This raises the question of how I want to present myself and my body? This selfie series of 16 photos is an answer to that. 3 photos are submitted for this call. My focus is not to stage my own body for an audience or a specific context in a certain way, but to see myself unadorned and radically. One could speak of a staging for myself.
The strategy of ambiguity is important here. It's not about committing to an either/or, but about the state of suspension of a both/and. It is an attempt to withdraw my body from stereotyping and generalizing attributions. At first glance, the presenting body cannot be quickly and clearly assigned to any of the binary gender categories and thus probes to elude social standardization. One could also say, it is about finding an in-between within parallel realities or identities.