NEOSLIT (2023)
lenticular prints

In trans theory there is this notion of lag time, or how transition is marked by delay. To gain access to treatment, to feel aligned with one's body. Wait to come-out, to pass. Wait for safety, comfort, joy. This lag can produce a sense of fatigue, with transition experienced as a ceaseless tunnel, a journey of becoming sometimes ecstatic but often tinged with anxiety. This series is about time. I wanted to represent mysterious femqueen creatures morphing into the unknown. I find a utopian quality to these figures evolving fluidly between sexes, genders and races, melting into each other as glimmers of a relational ontology.

There is also this quote from Torrey Peters, "half of the trans women in Brooklyn live in a state of perpetual pre-celebrity, awaiting a well-deserved recognition that will never come." This speaks to the precarious aspect of trans lives. Desire and precarity, narcissism and survival. The instability of the lenticular image allows me to represent the virtuality of queer fame, a flamboyance too often cursed with evanescence.

The name of the series evokes my NEOTRIBE research as well as slit-scan photography, an oldschool still and animation technique that allows to play with temporality. I found this to be the adequate metaphor of trans lag, the figures seemingly frozen in time, compressed and flattened into surface. In this vivid, textural color mingling, one might also catch a nod to my graffiti roots, overlapping layers of paint dripping on the slick metal of a rolling train. Gazing out the window, facial delirium as landscape.

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