From the moment I saw Emma I always suspected she was transgendered. It was easy to see with anyone with common sense.
The fact she intends on keeping that horrible bow cut and yeah that facial features…
DUAL / DUEL is an intimate portrait of Nono Pessoa, a painter and professional wrestler.
https://vimeo.com/170432522
https://mega.nz/file/oQ4HwIgL#vg74sT9olwAMoYEVLptC1zO57UkoVscWnn0RgcNdY0kDUAL / DUEL SPRING SUMMER 2017
It’s Not What We Create, It’s How We Create It
DUAL / DUEL is an intimate portrait of Nono Pessoa, a painter and professional wrestler.
Fitted in a tight wrestling singlet, Nono shares memories of painting, soul, body and identity. Nono’s story dresses images of two friends, Maria and Maurizio, their silence charged with intimacy.
“You say – sensitive, intuitive – feminine; active, decision-making, masculine", Nono says. "But of course, a sexual organ doesn’t prevent you from being one or the other.“ Getting harnessed to a horselike metallic structure, Nono seems to honour the promise to create new rules: – “I want to be – I want to free myself from all the boxes”.
This documentary accompanies the Spring Summer 2017 collection designed by Lluis Corujo Besga and Andrea Cammarosano, two long-time friends, who met over ten years ago at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.
“Working together has always come naturally to us and is something we have sought to formalise for a long time. Suddenly last February we were in the right place in life to finally act on it”.
The resulting collection, which is previewed in this video, is a celebration of Togetherness:
Images of brother and sisterhood emblazon a selection of t-shirts and sweatshirts. Andrea and Lluis seek a re-definition of human bonds – soul, sibling and mentor, family of blood and choice, bonds that defy genders and generations. We can now accept that brothers can be sisters and sisters brothers yet, of late we have focused more on the journey than the rightful destination.
Such bonds are anchored in the body body. Ornate calligraphies in bullion embroidery and print evoke tribal tattoos on the flesh of skin toned fabrics. Deceptively simple, these garments are of mixmatched pattern constructions refitted for comfort - as for tops with asymmetric raglan- and inset-sleeves.
An homage to the ancient Greeks, Andrea and Lluis connect the spiritual and the physical, the noble and trivial, the celestial and lurid with the gristle of wrestling of that ancient world. Delicate, traditional jacquards illustrate Soul Mates and sado-maso, colossal sex-toys.. Centaurs - half human half horse, a foremost hybrid - are woven into a seasonal totem. Likeness’ are painterly tightly wound fine miniatures or wide canvas' of thick loose free brushstrokes.