HAUS N ATHEN

20-22 MAY 2022

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​“FEMME SHARKS DON’T EAT OUR OWN.

FEMME SHARKS LIKE TO EAT THOUGH
FEMME SHARKS RECOGNIZE THAT FEMMES COME IN ALL KINDS OF SIZES AND EACH KIND IS LUSCIOUS. WE WORK TOWARDS LOVING OUR CURVY, FAT, SKINNY, SUPERSIZE, THICK, DISABLED, BLACK AND BROWN FINE-ASS BODIES EVERY DAY. WE REALIZE THAT LOVING OURSELVES IN A RACIST/SEXIST/HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC/ABLEIST/CLASSIST SYSTEM IS AN EVERYDAY ACT OF WAR AGAINST THAT SYSTEM.”

FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO

This exhibition is about subverting toxic masculinity in the queer community through reinvigorating femme-ness and all of its powers. But what is femme-ness in a patriarchial world? The goal of the exhibition is to bring together work that highlights all kinds of femininity, especially the failing femmes, the femmes without abs, the fatties with bellies, the femmes that ruin their make up; the bimbos and faggot himbos.
Images shape our worlds.
Capitalism requires bodies that can produce and reproduce normalized values, masculinities that can labor (in the traditional sense) and sell clothes and products with their abs. Our intention is to fuck this up. period.
Queer femmes love and hate both – they don’t ask what bodies are good, they ask what different kinds of bodies can do.
FEMME4FEMME4EVER is assembled in videos,  paintings, photographs and installations.

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Curated by Vassilia Kaga

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