NOT A MAN - Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme

The series “I Am Not a Man” consists of staged photographs that explore the social and visual construction of femininity. Both serious and burlesque, the work considers the female body as a site where norms, fantasies, and power relations are inscribed. Femininity appears less as an essence than as a set of visible signs, produced and regulated by society.

In the images, femininity escapes all control. It emerges through specific parts of the body, oscillating between apparent legitimacy and disruption of the gaze, creating a grotesque effect that destabilizes the viewer. The body becomes a space of tension, where normative markers of femininity assert themselves while simultaneously fracturing under their own visibility.

Through exaggeration, displacement, and irony, the series highlights the performative dimension of gender and exposes its constructed and repetitive nature. The aesthetic and sexual stigmatization of the female body is neither denied nor reproduced as such, but reinterpreted with humor, creating a space where ambiguity becomes a form of emancipation.