NNC VWORLD SPECIAL PROJECT GENDER IDENTITY - 2022

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EDITOR’s...

I am proud of this issue and of the freedom that our artists have brought into these pages.

A special thanks to Vanessa Rusci who strongly believes in freedom and human rights, thanks to her certain projects get a voice.

We are a collective that expresses itself through artists, without you we are absolutely nothing!

THANK YOU ALL

Valentine

I have always fought for human rights and so that no one is discriminated against me anymore.

In light of the disasters of recent years where human rights have been trampled on in some countries and never respected in others, I am happy and enthusiastic that NNC Magazine gives space to the free expression of all!

It was very difficult to select the works I wanted to choose all of them because the theme was really important and all the items should have had space, but this is never possible in a magazine.

I selected the strongest works, most centered on respect for rights, those that brought hope and beauty.

I thank all the participants and I wish you to keep fighting without ever making you shut up!

Vanessa

vanessa rusci artwork

das italy

Our young people are teaching us so much about being free.

I observe them and I learn and I free myself.

My expression in music, illustrations and graphics has become free.

So I want to thank the new generations!

freedom

EMMANUELA ZAVATTARO italy

diversity The other is husband, wife, brother, friend, companion, padre and may not be what I mean because you have probably a different idea from mine.

I appreciate the diversity. No, I love diversity: I look for it, I value it, they grow and multiply because Diversity is wealth, is Beauty, it is a divergence that will save and open new horizons.

massimiliano esposito italy

fluid

“Since arriving in Paris 2012, I’ve started a new series of artworks representing pre-adolescent boys – an age when the games and innocence of childhood give way to adult thoughts and concerns. That phase when boys turn into men, between the ages of 10 and 14, is a stage when sexuality is still not fully expressed and when gender is still fairly fluid. My characters are androgynous precisely because I want to represent that sexual duality”

body

Michele liuzzi Italy

The body and its surrounding environment has always been, and is, the reason for my research path.

gender “As an artist in 2021, I have a responsibility to share and talk about the social problems of our current climate. I believe that face to face communication is being lost and the “virtual connection” is taking up more and more space in the real world. The world of emotions, feelings and words is a world that exists without the need for screens. “

veronique charlotte United kindom

Super woman The

series Superwoman depicts the outlines of a woman as real women look. She is not a size zero model, she is rather the size most women are. I have chosen to only sew her outlines to emphasize that the job she does is often invisible. We often take for granted that women do household chores. I have also chosen the background fabric to be cotton fabric to mirror traditional aprons.

Eva Kitok sweden

pietro pancotto

italy

society Gender identity does not necessarily derive from the biological identity of the person.

Gender identity may be related to the sex assigned at birth or may differ from it. All societies have a number of gender categories that can serve as the basis for the formation of a person’s social identity in relation to other members of society. Not belonging to one of these categories has always been considered something unseemly, a form of sin. The first step is to find yourself in the chaos, to recognize your identity and find the perception of you and the peace

still Vulnerable

samuel zhang china

revolution

“Becoming a body” is a project I put my body central to the practice as the resource for inspiration and a site struggles. The project stemmed from my self-identity and self-representation with concerns of biopolitics that come from my journey pursuing an ‘ideal’ body as a gender dissident.

By using eight boxes as an installation and one moving image to present two stages that I was going through when presenting my body, which are intertwined with each other and ended spiritually self-healing.

The installation not only reflects the sufferings but also an implication of discipline and punish - gender performativity - the more the body performs, the farther it gets isolated... forming a series of self-defensive mechanisms operates subconsciously or unconsciously for the purpose of protecting my unity from a contradictory fact that between pursuing and presenting an “ideal body”. Additionally, the exploration of materials like ‘black velvet’ used for the background inside the box and the choice of metallic print aims at popping up the figures by absorbing the extra light in the box.

MyPillow

Series of MyPillow Apersonisusuallybornonabedwithmanydreams.

MyPillow.

Myclosestfriend, Ilaytherehoursafterhours Fantasizing Crying Shouting Laughing Goingtoschool Fallinginlove Hates OhMyPillow!

BeingPregnant Feelingalone Sufferinganddying Thispillowisapartofmeorevenmyself

hanieh (honey) Jalali iran

J DAVIES australia

the work of J Davies is strongly hampered by censorship, only for him we indicate the website

queer

I am a queer, agender, Maori person who aspires to help celebrate the existence of us living outside the gender binary. My work documents my life and the lives of the queer and gender diverse people closest to me. My work is a celebration of us, our bodies, our sexualities - our differences and our similarities.

I never grew up with any relatable queer role models, no one to look up to or to a spire to be like - no one to learn from and no one to reassure me that I was on a path that would lead me to friends, family, community. I was constantly force fed harmful stereotypes and traumatic storylines in film and in books. My work aims to repair some of that damage that our community has endured from mainstream media, from the stories we overhead as closeted children or adolenscnts. My work aims to highlight and celebrate our diversity - it aims to welcome othersinto our extended community and to show our resilience and our collective strength

Michelle Hartney us

Diana Londoño Colombia

mending

Sometimes you make a mistake so big it can never be repaired.

This series is about the most epic mistake I have made (so f a r ) as a mother.

One that I can never take back, but can only try to mend. When my child came out of my body, and the doctor declared we had a boy. I believed it. We gave our child a “boy” name. We dressed our child in “boy” clothes.

We imposed he/him pronouns on our sweet little baby. We told our child what their gender was. We were wrong.

We happened t o have a child so authentic and in tune with themselves they were able to let us know early on they were not, in fact, a boy. My child switched pronouns at f o u r years old, and now dresses in clothes that reflect their gender identity.

We are left with bins of baby clothes that do not reflect our child’s gender.

I wish I could g o back and raise them gender neutral. I cannot go back in time, but I can attempt reparations.

I have been repairing my child’s baby clothes so they reflect the gender my child identifies with. The clothes have been chemically bleached, embroidered into, or embellished with patches and lace. I often consult with m y child and get their input and suggestions for how they would like their b a b y clothes to look.

Clara Lemos portugal

giancarla faralli italy

love

sofia dalamagka Greece

Rommel Mendoza philippines

stereotypes Questioning of stereotypes is a personal interpretation of social stereotypes and roles by creating imaginary characters.

These people do not exist, but they do not cease to be familiar.

I use my own body to ask annoying questions that concern social stereotypes, patriarchy and gender without any mood of beautification. Each photo is one performance in front of the lens with small kits and strange objects, to function as signifiers or part of the evolving theatrical scene inside the photo frame.

What does it mean to be a woman in 2021 amid a pandemic? What is it like to be woman outside the Greek stereotypes and conservative standards she does not have married, has not had children? Cultural and patriarchal codes define even today that a woman is completed only when she experiences it motherhood with the traditional family model now looking like a noose on the neck.

Patriarchy forces us at some point in our lives, sometimes at all our lives to trim a part of ourselves or of ourselves body, even of our own soul. (birth, surgery, family, personality). As a creator and as a woman and through her Photo of business media concepts, images and metaphors to cut the umbilical cord and ties to patriarchy and motivate all those who have suffered it regardless of gender, sexual orientation, social status to dare the same.

The work of Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman and Francesca’s Woodman and all what he negotiates and represents was a source of inspiration and feedback to create this series of photos.

With the photos I criticize in a provocative way and other times with ironic mood by indirectly referring to outdated perceptions and behaviors that society stubbornly refuses to leave behind, starting with the patriarchal model that looks like a monstrous abscess to be broken. Let it remain as a memory of an imaginary happiness in old family photo albums and not as a pattern of behavior which is reproduced and applauded.

More than 10 rapes a day in Greece are reported by statistics with 1 in 24 is reported. About 4000 rapes, sex without consent, are committed annually in Greece according to the data of ELAS and the forensic service.

In the last four years, 14,000 cases of domestic violence have been recorded. From 2010 to 2020 according to official data of the Hellenic Police Headquarters 1781 cases of rape have been recorded, 792 attempted with 2,377 female victims and 298 men while 1618 of them have been traced.

Apollinariia ilina russia

myth of a woman

“everything can become a myth”

barbara carretta italy

soul

Ink Souls The deep and pure color dances on a veil of water, releasing the essence of the loving movement of the soul.

The chaos and order, the unpredictability and the control of the technique come together to express the unity of purpose of the source in the duality of matter

alessandra bb spain

Transformation

Those women who are still feeling oppressed by the patriarchy.

I want them to enjoy and appreciate every stage of their life. I want them to love their bodies with its natural changes and wish they could see it as a pinnacle of harmony, perfection, beauty and life.

We lose and find ourselves, we change but somehow stay the same person, we age but come alive.

We are a process and not a frozen, still pretty picture

celebration acte II keep calm, nuns just wanna have fun

arty jesse france

https://martynabenedyka.com/

David Affagar france

An own gender inside

«Where does male and female identity lie ?

I was born as male. But very often since my teenage, people mistake to my «right» gender.

Everyone has always told me mademoiselle or madam, I have never felt offended for it. I was used to, I was born with it. I must say I’m pretty proud of it, it’s part of my identity, and I’ve always wondered why should I be either a male or a female. The feeling to be none of them actually suited me.

I guess that, despite of my female aura, the community classified me as male because of my genitals. Well, everybody knows that a penis is not the right definition of male, if there is one. Gender has neither sex nor face.

Gender is culture, and my own one has always put me on the girls’ side.

I guess I love women because all of my elementary school was girls’ school.I was a sample to mixity.

I guess I love women because during my childhood girls accepted me, boys didn’t.

I guess I love women because my mother loved me.

I guess I love women because boys crushed me at middle school.

I guess I love women because I want to be part of them, so hard that I really feel female inside.

So I’m female inside and Lesbos gave me the way.

But am I right? What about my gender ? I can’t be female outside, that could not be me and actually I can’t stand making up, even though I like to wear dresses. But being a woman is not just about pageantry. What’s my kind ? Why should I be more female than gorilla or fish ? Am I really a female inside ? Am I not simply a repressed macho ? What a mess !

I’m just a noodle lost in the bowl, soaking in my mind.

What about my gender inside ? Everyone has their own gender inside. » David Affagar

Alexandra Van Lierde belgium

LGBTQ+

I believe in valorisation of LGBTQ+ (Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Trans-queer+) This is a very important topic in our current society. Too many of them still feel discriminated against, or judged, even though they are totally part of our world. Art is a way to celebrate diversity and freedom of choices. Human interactions inspire me, my colours and energy are reflecting the diversity in human kind!

Male, female, both, neither… two overlapping faces, with their kaleidoscope of shapes and colours, projecting a spectrum of feelings and questioning the gender norms.

The palette uses the six colours associated with the LGBTQ community but doesn’t follow the strict order of the rainbow flag. Instead, it works from right to left and then left to right like an invisible pendulum, exploring the gender identity – echo of its many struggles and doubts. From the soft lines evocating a Venus or Madonna, symbols for centuries of women and femininity, emerges another face that doesn’t fit into any stereotype. But the lines are strong, the eyes looking firmly towards the future, confident of whom they are

Michel Groussaud france

future

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