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A magic image: a case of intersexuality.
The photograph comes from the archives of Dr. G. Klonaris, gynecological surgeon and obstetrician.
This body is an inversion of the concept of the Hermaphrodite as synthesis of the two sexes according to the ancient Greek myth personified in Hellenistic sculpture. Here gender is an in-between and could evoke a state before or after sexual difference. This is a pre- or post- gender body.
That particular body, erases the border not only between the feminine and the masculine, but also between the imaginary and the palpable. It stands on the in-between. We named her/him ANGEL.
The Angel. A meta – concept. On the other side of the dualistic world and of sexual differentiation. The alchemical hermaphrodite, symbol of the coincidentia oppositorum already prefigures and incorporates the angel as winged Hermes. Messenger according to Greek etymology.
In 1985 we started elaborating this unknown: the concept of the Angel mediated by an intersexual subject that we associated with galactic landscapes. Like a magnet, she/he attracted suspended constellations, planetary nebulae, solar eclipses, stellar clouds. Our photographic superimpositions with astronomical documents led to superimpositions of the subject with itself. The layers augmented. The frame moved from the borders of the print to the inside of the image – this body breaks the frame, escaping from clinical canons. The object of scientific observation becomes the subject of a mutational process.
Photographs, performances, installations, poetic and theoretical texts, sound pieces, radio broadcasts, artists’ books, computer graphics – the intersex subject invaded our media and our materials, orienting our visual research through a variety of technologies – chemical, electronic, digital.
The emblematic photograph produces its own mirrored time, just as it produces its own astral space. It produces complexity.
A different body or a double? A virtual self-portrait of the double author – ourselves. In this mirror process, the anonymous photographed subject participates as an active intuition.
M.K. - K.T.
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