Animal Bro Portfolio

Close(t) Demonstrations

2023

Semmelweisklinik Centre for Art and Culture, Vienna

Transition Diaries is a series of comics following Kweerkat on their journey through early transition - a liminal space with few true allies. Addressing the invisibility of transmasculine people and FTMs in both mainstream and queer spaces, these stories give a first-person view of everyday situations.

They are an intimate, honest, vulnerable and unfiltered document of all the big and the small experiences of coming out of the closet and transitioning. The social, political, medical and cultural all intersect at the personal.

By sharing these most intimate thoughts, Kweerkat pushes against narratives of objectification and instrumentalisation, and encourages others to come out and to reject paranoia, self-censorship, and the paradox of belonging through fulfilling expectations that are ultimately always normative.

Transition Diaries, 15 A3 pages, digital print, 2023

Photos ©Iain Zabolotny

Red Shoes, animated video, 2022

Body Was Made

2023
SKIN Performance Festival, Vienna

Red Shoes opens with the familiar hardboiled noir setting and the archetypal tough masculine protagonist. But what seemed like a shady hand-over turns out to be a date, and the protagonist is wearing high heels.

What a twist! But what does this say about our expectations? Are plot twists a rejection of our expectations, or are misaligned expectations a rejection of what is?

The change we need is not to create more boxes to fit into, but to become comfortable with being creative and playful - an unchecked box, a wildcard.

Queer Art Spaces Vienna 23

2023
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

The work is part of a series exploring and expressing the trans experience from a personal perspective.
The protagonist, KweerKat, is my own alter-ego and the stories are always based on true events. Though the subject matter of stereotyping, objectification, instrumentalization and dehumanization can be conflicting or difficult, the focus is always on avoiding blame and judgement, and on having a positive impact instead by providing insight and allowing people to empathise, and ultimately form their own opinions.
KweerKat already had a life before the short comic strips series. Motivated by my own experiences as a migrant and a queer person, they were established as a creative device to publicly tackle less-discussed issues and represent people affected by them.

Hear no Evil - paper mache, wire, acrylics, printed material
Dimensions: 52x18x45cm

Close(t) Demonstrations

Body Was Made

Queer Art Spaces Vienna 23

Approximating

Souvenirs de L'avenir

Arteles Residency

New Dream

The Three Magick Stooges

Year of the Horse

Vision Quest