How To Be A Man examines masculinity as a set of learned behaviours, gestures, and expectations. Through still lifes, portraits, and visual interventions, the work reflects on how these norms are shaped, performed, and reinforced in everyday life, drawing on the ideals of manhood promoted within the United States as a model for ‘real manhood.’
Rooted in the artist’s experience as a Black, queer, male-bodied person, the project considers the pressures of conformity and the tensions between imposed roles and lived identity. Objects, humour, and exaggeration are used to question and unsettle dominant ideas of manhood.
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