Chimeric Trance

Hybrid fantasy

In this work, the woman appears through new forms of connection and posthuman multi-hybridization. Her presence challenges stable boundaries between the human, the animal, nature, and technology. Here, flora and fauna on the human body create their own ecosystems. The woman is symbolically represented as Mother Nature, from whom nature flourishes, blooms, or prepares to erupt in a volcanic explosion. Yet she is not linked to nature in the traditional, patriarchal sense, in which she can become an object of possession, control, and exploitation. Her liberated corporeality and sexuality manifest themselves through the wildness of nature and animality. These chimeras are not the result of experiments. Weird and unreal, they elude control and attempts to examine and study them. The medical, institutional gaze transforms the body into an object of observation, classification, and knowledge; however, these chimeras are not victims in any sense, but rather exercise agency over their unusual bodies. They possess their own desires and pleasures, allowing their fantasies to unfold, fully aware of the male gaze and male fascination, which they themselves take pleasure in.