Íme Marcus Fisher, a Londonban élő amúgy (persze) izraeli Oreet Ashery férfi alteregója.
By devising Marcus Fisher as her male alter ego, the London-based artist Oreet Ashery sets off a visual and performative examination of cultural, religious and sexual identity. In her interventions as an orthodox Jew in picture-perfect attire in London, Berlin and Tel Aviv, she confronts her secular environment with the explicitly “other”, thereby probing the limits of multicultural and multi-religious societies. By confronting orthodox Jewish tradition with its own taboos, such as homosexuality, transvestism and sexuality, Ashery simultaneously describes her own “queer” return to this very tradition. In Hebrew “Mar-Cus” means “Mr. Cunt”.
Apropó: Self Images (Israel as Seen Through the arts) konferencia
Ashery honlapja: oreetashery.net
