Toxic, 2012

Toxic, 2012, a video installation consisting of a video and some photographic reproductions, leads the research of these two artists in a new direction in the field of queer culture. Like their earlier works, it emerges from the filming of a performance created not for a live audience, but for the lens of the movie camera, the presence of which in the space is never hidden, but rather obviously at hand, in a Brechtian manner. The actors on stage do not pretend to be the characters they are playing, but instead declare that they are actors playing a role, inseparable from their true identity. [...]