A tender yet subversive work exploring fatherhood, gender roles, and the performance of care. Wearing makeup applied by his daughter, the artist examines how masculinity is constructed, decorated, questioned, and destabilized.
This project begins with a simple gesture: the artist asks his daughter to paint his face. Mascara, lipstick, and eyeliner turn his self-image into a site of play and disruption. The work reflects on fatherhood inside a queer family and the social expectation that a household must contain a woman to feel “complete.” Here, make-up exposes the fragility of manhood and the arbitrary roles imposed on the body.
