BODY COPY
Mitchell Moreno
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Dates:
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Location:
Paddington Reservoir Gardens 251-255 Oxford St Paddington NSW 2021
Hours:
Entry Fee:
Free
Genres:
Portrait
BODY COPY is a photo-text series exploring the performance of queer masculinity in digital culture.
From a data set of one thousand lines of found text collected from male same-sex hook-up sites, Moreno chose 40 adverts and attempted to create ‘ideal’ responses through self-portraits. Acting as a stylist, set decorator, subject and photographer, Moreno made each image on a shoestring budget in the corner of their flat.
The project began as a response to Moreno’s recovery from eating disorders and body dysmorphia to address the crisis they felt in being photographed and seeing themselves.
The series moves beyond the psychotherapeutic, exploring how queer masculinities are unstable constructions rooted in culture and inextricably linked to the interests of neoliberalism.
Mitchell Moreno is a genderqueer artist from Leicester, UK. Their work explores the queer gaze, the performance of masculinities, and art as therapy.
Moreno worked for over a decade in theatre, opera and circus before refocusing their creative practice around photography, in which they are self-taught.
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