184CM, 70KG, 18CM  


ANTON BOGDAN
  


How do men embody and evade masculinity through the self-made digital closet ?

When I created my first "Grindr" profile at the age of 16, I had a hope of escaping into a safe space from a toxic and straight environment, finding love and belonging within other outcasts.

Instead I received a dickpic and a message from a faceless profile whose name was “STRAIGHTDOMTOP” whom right away interrogated me with words that I have never seen in my life.

“Fem, masc, stats, top, bottom…”

From a safe space that could provide me a place to belong and become a member of a bigger community of marginalized individuals, I have been bluntly introduced into the perverted and selective side of what I thought would be my family.

With this project I want to visualize my frustration and anger, pointing towards an oversexualised and toxic exclusion within the already excluded community.






bogdan.anton.x@gmail.com
 @antnbgd