Alessandro Penso Subject: Drag King Caption: Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of their performance. in this work,the body becomes the protagonist, the soul and instrument for this assertion. In “drag kings” shows, stereotypes are overcome by means of the same stereotypes and, with slashing irony, a temporary identity is sought,to be discarded after a few minutes. The moments preceeding the exhibitions are recurrent and it is exactly there that the complexity at the bottom of my research is to be found.The glances emerging from the masks artfully created to frame them and never to hide them are superimposed to the muscles that contract while in the shadows loneliness and affection emerge.
