Penchantly gay - Bulls-Roses, 2023

Penchantly gay - Bulls-Screens, 2023

Penchantly gay - cheers test 2, 2023

Penchantly gay - cheers test 3, 2023

Penchantly gay - cheers, A0 Poster, 2023

Penchantly gay - Bulls II, A0 Poster, 2023

Penchantly gay is part of a practice-led PhD research inquiring into the ways long term endurance of cisheteronormativity manifests itself on the body. At its core, my work deals with the intangibilities of embodied and lived experiences of oppressive gendered structures, and how these are situated in relation to hierarchised knowledge systems deriving from white, cisgender, heteronormative and patriarchic frameworks.
Penchantly gay is series of images tied to a visual mapping that was used to aid my memory when trying to understand how old I was when gender normatives began being projected onto my body. This particular poster project pays tribute to childhood queerness*, to not yielding to heteronormative ruling despite all the difficulties attached to resisting and refusing supremacist impositions. I turned penchant into an adverb, going beyond a ‘strong inclination’ and into the reclaiming of my own identity as it was: ‘insistently’ [penchantly] gay.

To be continued...

Penchantly [and publicly] gay was a self-initiated project with financial support from Art Office Rotterdam, and it consisted of fifty posters spread through Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The posters were on display in advertisement frames from September 25 until October 1, 2023.