Carpintarias de São Lázaro

CORINNE MARIAUD

AQUI DRAGÕES. The series Aqui Dragões highlights people who intervene on their bodies, deconstructing them, reconstructing them, transforming them and performing them. Some make their body a banner, the emblem of their commitments. They use it to affirm their identity but also to transform society. I make portraits of people who do not recognize themselves in either the masculine or the feminine and identify as non-binary and people in transition, particularly FtoM (female to male) Some transmasculines have their breasts removed before taking testosterone. Others bandage their chest to erase it, still others take testosterone without removing their breasts. They highlight multiplicity of possibilities. This space of transition is a journey through identities These people are in the midst of change, outside any territory, migrants from their gender of origin. By posing topless, exposing their deconstructed, reconstructed body, they assert their presence. Their approach is political, it revolutionizes the rules set up by society, they are "dissidents of the regime of sexual difference" affirms Paul B. Preciado for whom men and women are social and ideological constructions, "Political fictions". They raise the question of the recognition of identities, individual choices and total freedom to dispose of one's body. Social networks allow trans and non-binary people to communicate across the world and to connect and support each other. Thus they create new territories. *Hic sunt dracones, ”Here be dragons”, means unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons and other mythological creatures on unknown areas of maps.