Diffractive photographic performance with the wolf, 2026
The Wolf, as a mythological figure, serves as a cultural node where projections of desire, power, and identity entangle with myth, matter, and discourse. This project takes shape as a diffractive investigation through photographic mise-en-scène – scenographic constructions consisting of model miniatures and embodied drag performance – unfolding the Wolf through queered configurations of gender, masculinity, and intimate proximity.
Tender Proximities is a fantasy, an imagination of desire and longing arising in mutuality – rather than as a projection from subject to object.
What becomes of desire when the dichotomy of hunter and prey is dissolved?
Say that the desire that appears is for play – not necessarily sexual in nature, but possibly. Desire, as play, becomes exploratory, for its own sake, in mutual interaction, turn-taking, without external motivation – see for example Huizinga (1960).
From a Baradian perspective, desire can be understood as a relational, non-universal practice. Desire as phenomenon emerges mutually, though possibly asymmetrically, and then with a need for ethical accountability.
Tender Proximities
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