I set up an experiment.
I walked in the public space of my city (Lausanne, Switzerland), as for a week I transformed myself into a cis man, into my male alter ego. With the help of make-up, wigs, prosthetics, clothes, I slipped into the skin of another, of my other. I followed men, all body types and ages, and I copied their postures and body language. Trying to decipher what is this ‘masculine attitude’, this ‘masculine body’ often referred to, stereotyped, full of obsolete codes.
This project mixing performance, documentation (b&w images), texts and self portraits, is the result of an experience that is personal, and defined in time and space. It is not meant to define a general male or female experience, just mine, last year, for a moment. In the streets, in front of the mirror, I searched for answers : how looking like 'the opposite sex' will influence my attitude and my body in space? How will others look at me?
Installation images : Biennale de l'Image Possible (BIP), Liège, Belgium, 2020 + Photofestival Urbi & Orbi, Sedan, France, 2021.