FULL HD VIDEO, COLOUR, 15MIN + PRINT ON PAPER
Gender Axis Balance Exercises, 2020
Full HD video, colour, 15min + Print on paper
Tacolin (variations), 2021
Drawing made together with Alejandro de Antonio. Graphite on paper. 29,7×21 cm.
Androgynous new moon, 2021
Colour photography
Made with the assistance of Ricardo Villoria
Élan d’Orphium’s work explores the body and its plastic and performative possibilities through different media such as drawing, performance, make-up, video and photography. All his work is a unit that, in this exhibition, is presented in parts.
The work Ejercicios de equilibrio sobre eje de género focuses on an instrument that, perhaps, has little to do with the artistic but does have a socially symbolic value: the division between the masculine and the feminine based on a high heeled shoe. An act where the physical becomes political. This piece was made at LABoral Centro de Arte for the exhibition Circuitos de Artes Plásticas 2021 de la Comunidad de Madrid and is the basis for the project that the artist continued during his residency.
From the idea of the shoe as a prosthesis as well as an instrument, a collaboration arose with the luthier Alejandro de Antonio from Candas. From this research into what a high heeled shoe would sound like came the Tacolín, a figure that walks between the high heeled shoe and the violin, given Élan’s musical training in this speciality. For this reason, most of the variations and prototypes of the drawing on display lean towards the fretted string. El Tacolín began to be developed during his residency at LABoral and is currently in the process of being realised.
To conclude, one of the photographs taken during his stay is shown, which served as the image for the exhibition Más allá del más afuera organised online by Centro Cultural de España en México and the activist agency Border.