Artist José Ángel Nazabal. <p>The “Really, Honey?” series reflects the area of the queer universe that is most influenced by the camp aesthetic: poses, affectation, and drama.</p>
<p>I am interested in including androgynous men who show other forms of non- normative sexualities so that they constitute strong figures who tell a story of empowerment. It is a visual story where the queer body, a body that disagrees with the normalizing social practices, stands as a free being who chooses for himself, as an individual who belongs to himself in his totality, to whom his beauty, his body, his pleasure, and his own fluids belong.</p>
<p>Beyond the apparent frivolity of the images, these scenarios seem to float within a hedonistic atmosphere of beauty and enjoyment, made not at all gratuitous within my work: one of the main objectives I set myself is to subvert and pay homage to sexual minorities and to provide them with a vision that favors empowerment and social positioning, rather than victimization or defeat.</p>
