The project of Rue Charlie Lana at Sottogiudecca place

sottogiudecca, The new exhibition and performance space dedicated entirely to contemporary, project presents -ness_transghost Of rue charlie lana , artist and performer based in Venice, Fresh from the recent success of the exhibition strange epidemic (Base, Milan, 22.06 – 02.07 | Catalog published by TMW factory) – with A personal exhibition that will be inaugurated on Thursday 20 July at 7.00 pm on the occasion of Reggio Calabria Pride and will be open until 28 July 2023 (Mon 16.30-20.30; Tue-Sat 09.00-13.00/16.30 – 20.30).

transghost it is a test tool strange culture one who inquires The relationship between politics and sexualityTo encourage critical awareness of personal identity beyond the hegemony of genetics.

In our contemporaries the concept is making its way gender fluidWhich increasingly contributes to the undermining of patterns of representation of bodies that have perpetuated a dominant and discriminatory hierarchical system throughout history, institutionalizing roles and privileges based on purely structural characters.

Self Dead body mapping is a political actArtist imagines new fluid and mobile cartography defined in the work “MIT – Transghost Identity Map”Which systematizes the principles and stages of this transition.

through the invention and expression of reworded body – which goes beyond the “sexual norm” of the individual according to predetermined socio-cultural schemes –
Transghost performs and constructs reality through the tools of the imagination, to destroy the domain hierarchy. The distinguishing element of Transghost identity is zentai: a full body suit – already used in chroma key and in practice bdsm
– Which establishes a new epidermal dimension, able to hide and preserve the physical characteristics of the body, eliminating the elements of identity (sex, gender, ethnicity, age) of the subject. this situation of transghost anonymity suspends personal data e It generates a temporary and ephemeral identity that operates on power relations., To accept transghost performance means to doubt the ‘naturalness’ and ‘constancy’ of the terms ‘male’, ‘female’, ‘male’, ‘feminine’, ‘heterosexual’, ‘lesbian’, ‘transsexual’. Doubt the way we define and practice ourselves. By hacking the strict uniformity of the systemTransghost practices stage subversive and parody re-enactments of aesthetic, political and social codes,
Harnessing the Power of Divergence and Drift as a New Collective Paradigm,

Presents the Exhibition Project “Marriage is an imaginary union”, in which two transghost brides celebrate an imaginary wedding in Venice, subverting the visual and semantic canons of this romantic. comfort zonenationally popular travel icon After Marriage, Its intent is to “de-bizarre marriage” by dismantling the performativeness of its formal ritual. Weakening confirmation of institutionalizing regulatory practices set by the state and church, This choice underscores a desire to disrupt the order of nature that only grants access to religious marriage (and sometimes civil marriage) to heterosexual couples composed of men and women of biologically conforming gender identities. Traditionally, a label is placed on the image of the bride that wants her to be suave, attractive, well-educated and subservient to a socially minority role as a wife. Taking the normative and anti-patriarchal preconceptions of marriage to the limit, this subversive act is formally realized with the “constitution of.”Transghost Marriage Contract”,

who enforces the actual destruction of power through language and Paul B. finds an important reference in the theoretical examples detailed by Preciado in his Countersexual Manifesto (2019).

The reactionary potential of the contractual element is invoked in various forms and expressive practices.

On this occasion, the artist creates an unpublished work in collaboration with Sottogiudekaa mirror surface engraved with : wet languageHides a secret message, which can be decoded only in the event of a transfer of ownership and the signing of a special contract between the artist and the collector.

The wet language (i.e. the transghost language of desire), is composed of a pattern of more than 150 locants of bodily fluids and sexual humors that qualify as graphic signs, which participate in the formation of the wet alphabet so that “The Literature of Desire as Ambiguity”, In this context, project room presents himself as personal display spacein which the participants will be able to apply the Transghost practice through practice ,mirror mirror as plannedThe Transghost Manifesto (Kabul.magazine, Feb ’21).

rue charlie lana – Born in ’95, works in the field of visual arts and queer studies.

After graduating in Theater and Performing Arts at the IUAV in Venice (2019) he carries out independent teaching and research activities, developing theories and practices that lead him to the concept of identity. transghost

, whose research begins with an analysis of the concept of the linguistic and gendered performative (Austin and Butler), to studies on queer performativeness (Sedgwick), to the notion of body and power (Foucault and Preciado) and identity (Muñoz). In this context, he founded the artistic collective in Venice, which published the “Transghost Manifesto” in Kabul.magazine in 2021 and with the project won the Biennale College Teatro tender at the Venice Biennale. “On a Lonely Beach”. Among the main exhibitions: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Massa (Venice), Art Verona (Verona), Teatro India (Rome), Asolo Film Festival (Asolo), Spazio in Situ (Rome), Ard Uork (Venice), (Un)Fair (Milan) ), base (match). He currently lives and works between Venice and Sicily.