Mind-filler story
I came to experience a period of flirting with sexual ‘fluidity’ in my teenage years, sneaking out of control, parental and educational, to watch (then highly controversial) ‘Emmanuelle‘. Although I was firmly ‘she’, I did not shy away from experimenting kisses with girls or dressing in ‘man’s’ clothes. It was definitely an experimental, fluid period, emotions charged, receptive, curiosity untamed. Still marvel how much freedom of thought and expression I enjoyed at that young age (before observers took charge).
Then, I encountered many different forms of ‘fluidity’ in my medical training. Embracing and often approaching these in my art, I always considered ‘fluid’ identities as manifestation of ‘multitudes of self’.
We address the sexual diversity sub-theme of BraiArt exhibit in a series of images of persons with ambiguous gender identity – the story anchored in a triptych ‘Weak Signals‘. The series of accompanying images also explores an enduring social stigma despite liberation (‘Marked’, ‘Under the veil’), as well as ‘unisex’ (or should we call it fluid) nature of modern dress that blurres sexual identitiy and breaks stereotypes (‘Fluid’, ‘The Devil wears Prada’).
The series transcends the theme of sexual diversity and, together with other stories of the installation, illustrates individual search for identity through evolution, experience, maturation, and adaptation.
Left Brain Artists 