View Gridby: Guta Galli & Aaron Wilder
Chicago, Illinois & San Francisco, California
"Differences do not separate us; hatred does."
quote by: Jessica W., 11th Grade, Cold Spring Harbor High School, Lloyd Harbor, New York
Teacher: April Henry
Our collaboration started out as a photography project employing an analytical model to the daily performance of normative gender displays of appearance. The photographs depict the artists going through the motions of performing femininity and masculinity through sequential stillness. These figurative representations deconstruct gender norms and the way these norms relate to sex, race, identity and the idea of otherness. The original photographs were created in two sequences (one exploring masculine stereotypes and one exploring feminine stereotypes) where both artists went through identical actions.