2023-ONGOING

Heterosexual love is not merely an affective institution; it is a dispositif that produces narratives of social control. Many married men, perceived as heterosexual, repress their desire for other men in order to maintain their place within the heteronormative rules.

 

On queer dating apps, a recurring phrase appears: “Married. Discreet.” That discretion signals more than privacy; it names a politics of secrecy historically assigned to dissident desires.

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This project approaches heterosexual marriage as a postcard of affect and performance within heteronormative love, a site where binary logics and ideological constructs organize bodies in service of a reproductive narrative.

My practice has long centered on celebrating dissident bodies while questioning the position historically assigned to them: the observed and pathologized body. Working as a wedding photographer’s assistant, I redirect the gaze toward the heterosexual body, one rarely examined, exposing gender binarism and heterosexual ideology as constructed systems of bodily and identity-based violence.