Hay Fever, 2023 Video, 1080p Duration: 4 min 32 sec
ArtistsThe title of the work refers to spring allergies, when inhaled pollen causes irritation in an organism. The piece addresses ideas related to desire and symbiosis through a negotiation between symbolism and biology. Emerging out of an eco-feminist perspective, it calls for a reconsideration of gender binaries, serving as a subversion of the violent and domineering connotations attached to the act of penetration. In Freudian psychoanalysis, the male sexual organ is an object of envy for women, while for second-wave feminist theorists, it is an object of domination and violence. In my work, the organ is purely a sensory instrument, desire is pursued head-first, and through the act of penetration, the constant rhythm of life is expressed.