A sequence exploring patriarchal lineage by multidisciplinary artist Briar Pine. At present primarily based in Alfred, New York, Pine’s work spans pictures, efficiency, and set up to look at identification within the American panorama. Their sequence, “Camouflaged,” considers how masculinities are shaped and carried out. By this lens, the sequence asks how transmasculine identities navigate the stress to both assimilate into dominant cultural constructions or resist them solely.
“All through the sequence, I mirror on the patriarchal constructions I used to be raised inside to discover my relationship with masculinity. I exploit private artifacts similar to hair, searching trophies, testosterone, and household pictures to hint my relationships and historical past. In making every portrait, I endure transformations to query how I dismantle, uphold, or complicate the patriarchal ideologies embedded inside American tradition. Utilizing self-camouflaging methods borrowed from navy and searching tradition, I examine the visibility of my identification as a transmasculine particular person, exploring the constraints of assimilation and imagining new potentialities for masculinity. Fairly than deploy camouflage as a software to vanish into an setting, I exploit it to turn into hypervisible, confronting the viewer with the expectations and limitations positioned on gender presentation.”
