Today we are talking about “Unyckeness”, one of the latest artworks I have completed. You can see the artwork by clicking here. To purchase it, visit the “Buy art here” page.
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“Unyckeness” is about dualities, especially gender dualities. That’s why I used blue and pink as the main colors.
We are used to seeing the world in black and white… I mean… in pink and blue… because we know that human beings are usually born with male or female reproductive organs. Rarely is anyone born with both options. And many of us grew up with the idea that what we have between our legs determines how we should behave. And this has certainly generated countless conflicts throughout history.
At some point, we may realize that something we like does not fit that standard. In my opinion, this says nothing about our sexual orientation or our gender identity. I remember a few years ago, I served a client who was reluctant to wear a shirt with a blue print of stylized tulips, because they were flowers. After putting the shirt on with the blazer I had in mind to wear with the shirt, he liked the idea and ended up taking the shirt. He is certainly not the only man in the world who grew up believing that flower prints are for women. There must still be some people out there with this mentality, coming from a repressive education based on stereotypes, not on understanding the individual who came into our lives in the form of a child.
Note that the work is composed of alternating rectangles of blue and pink, like a chessboard. I did not try to emulate a board with equal squares and the same number of squares, but one of my references was a chessboard, like a struggle between the beliefs imposed on us by our parents and those that are part of our essence.
The reflections linked to this work concern the extent to which we accept our tastes, behaviors and other characteristics that are stereotyped as masculine and the extent to which we accept our tastes, behaviors and other characteristics that are stereotyped as feminine. Do you accept yourself as a whole, or just the part of you that matches the stereotypes linked to your biological gender? And, if you are a trans person, do you accept yourself as a whole or just the part of you that is the opposite of the stereotype of your biological gender? In both cases, how important are stereotypes in your life, including stereotypes not linked to gender? And how important is what your parents and family have transmitted to you in relation to your beliefs as an adult human being? How many of these beliefs and values have you questioned?
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