MARK Salzburg, Hannakstraße 17, 5023 Salzburg, Österreich
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MUXES This project started six years ago when I started photographing my culture in the isthmus of Oaxaca where I came from. I started by documenting the daily life of the muxes, attending their festivities, learning to understand their world, which led me to create a special relationship in the group. Over time I went deeper into the subject and became part of my life and personal project. The project became more and more an introspective process, in which questions about my own identity intertwined with the images and experiences of the photographic sessions with the muxes. I began to develop a relationship of admiration and desire for the muxes. In each session new and disturbing emotions began to emerge. The images seemed to be born of deep drives, and at the same time the same images awoke other sensations where my own identity were in a play. More and more the series has become a mixture between the desire to merge with the muxes, to be one of them, to enjoy the same untimely and transgressive freedom, and the clash with her exaggerated notion of the feminine, the tension between desire and rejection before them, but also to myself and my own sexual and cultural identity. The Muxes are part of my culture and myself. They are beautiful and terrible. Dual beings who, rather than defining themselves as homosexuals, have transcended the idea of gender to assume a deeply new identity in a constant search for a notion of beauty. Two genres in one body. During this journey my work has traveled through many facets. The muxe has become a central project, covering different planes and moments of my life. Gradually I developed a free and particular aesthetic, with a challenging attitude, disquieting characters, I realized that I was finding something very special in my work and that made me feel happy with what I was doing until now which satisfied me and not I have been able to stop. https://www.instagram.com/nelsonmoralesmx?igsh=ZzB0anoxZWh4cmlp
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