Monday, November 19, 2012

Over the boundaries of gender


Meet Eva and Adele, two women who are supporters of the theory that the body is the canvas itself. You don't need a canvas or a video camera, you yourself can be a big statement. If you visit their website, www.evaadele.com, you can get an idea of their different statements, different projects and biographies. One of their statements that I found interesting was "over the boundaries of gender". Eva and Adele are married and although you wouldn't be able to tell, Eva is actually a man, who chooses to express his marriage with Adele as a female-female marriage. Eva had his gender legally changed but chose to keep his body the way it is without undergoing the actual sex change. They are always seen in full make-up in public, as part of their image. One of their projects that I found interesting was CUM. Like any other two 'women' who love having their pictures taken in full make-up, Eva and Adele adore collecting pictures that other people have taken of them and use it to portray to the public how other people see couples. They will often provide a stamped postcard to the photographer so that they can receive a copy of the photo in return for permission for the photo to be used as the photographer likes. 

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