The photo taken in New York disrupts the perceptions of gender, identity and sexuality. Through these retratos, which are intimate and exuberant, queer neoclasicos, atemporales and hipermodernos, Michael Bailey-Gates reimagines the human relationships of form lúdica, divertida, theater and sensual… there are sean celebrities, models or our friends of all the life or the decorations, the postures, the miradas, the objects, the makeup, the vestuario… All our arrastra a historias visuales en las que el hombre et la femme, lo masculino y lo femenino, lo hetero et lo homo ya no se limitan al marco reductor de definitioniciones prefabricadas que reafirman las convenciones de la sociedad. Aunque suo remit a menudo a fotografos y artists, Michael Bailey-Gates deja de lado el drama existential en favor de una exploración de la felicidad. In its first exhibition and monograph, A Glint in the Kindling (2021). Our autoretratos shows the beauty in all its beauty. Like Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin, Michael Bailey-Gates affirmed his vision of human individuality and the new forms of continued movement, jugando con la categorización y la superficialidad de los términos. The artist occupies the space, sublimates his world, ignores the cinematography of the prejuicios and offers no new perspective, if no alternative, that he captures alive before his object según sus deseos, sueños y fantasías.
Nathalie Dassa
United States – New York