Synopsis: 

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The attempt of making this project stems from the artist's personal journey as a gender queer. This exploration of manhood and masculinity, involves adopting an expected male representation associated with muscle building in our popular culture. This tension between gender identity and its representation keeps escalating. For a gender queer, as a strategy, presenting a recognised masculinity secures self not being targeted but also trapped by the stereotyped itself, a failure of representation.

 

Freud's theory on sexual-and-gender identity formation, marked by a split between accepted and rejected identifications, continues to haunt the individual.

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Materials and dimensions:

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(size can be changed)

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Box: 30cm x 30cm x 10cm (depth) x 8 boxes

Weight: roughly 100g for each box

Materials: Waxed leather thread 0.1cm thick (red), Grey board 0.2cm thick, Metallic print, for the box cloth-black velvet inside and black leather outside, High-firm foam sheet 0.5cm thick, Acrylic, Superglue, Needle.