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Dual channel video installation, 12 min, colour, sound, 2004-5
In collaboration with Marco Paulo Rolla

Male and female, where is the limit?
The beard as a macho statement.
Jewelry and make-up constructing the female.
Two masks that work as a cliché sign of gender for society.
What happens when male and female cross these borders?
What is the limit of human sexuality?

In this work using video & performance, we construct the trans-…formation, mutation, figuration from one gender to its opposite. We try to communicate and make possible a reflection about the exploration of the ascribed opposite gender behaviour as a possible affinity for a human sexual being. Does our gender appear as what we feel it to be? Many times people can’t realize who they would like to be: which kind of behaviour, sexuality, gender orientation or style of dressing.

Each channel is a vertical screen, where the two faces are looking at themselves, the audience or the mirror. A man and a man, a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, crossing their original gender, making a transsexual looping.

 
   
© Tejal Shah 2005