Hegen
Pflegen
C'est pour réguler (...)
SIÈGE
À CON BÉANT
Trophée
CHASSEUR, TON FUSIL
l'étendue
Signaletique de confinement
pénétrable
Croupe
Nue
Jägerporn
Sauvage
Paire de deux
Jeux de jambes
Jeux entre-eux
My work deals with the representation of nudity, sexuality and how they contribute to the maintenance of male dominance.
Drawing from personal experience, I examine the traditions of hunting and forestry, collecting their narratives and confronting the erotic projections that permeate them. For example, the notion of 'prey' and 'trophies'; and how the attributes of animal and human bodies both act as objects of desire.
These narratives are uncovered through in-depth research on the mythologies of the wilderness and through one-to-one conversations with hunters. Inside these narratives, I identify behaviours and phenomena that support patriarchal dominance and break them down into more personal experimental arrangements.
These are acted out with a certain irony in the form of site-specific interventions and performances, often without an audience, before being exhibited in a variety of formats such as installations, photography, drawings or video.
Throughout these works, which often flirt with the absurd, I hint at the absence of the naked body to summon the erotic power of the fantasies and dreams that animate and condition us.
Anaïs Edely, september 2022