In this photographic series, I approach femininity not as an identity to possess, but as a gesture to rehearse. The body presented is unmistakably male — middle-aged, imperfect, vulnerable — yet it inhabits poses historically coded as feminine: crossed legs, softened wrists, exposed torso, contained posture. These gestures are not parody. They are practice. I am interested in the tension between masculinity as inheritance and femininity as possibility. In Western visual history, the male body has often been depicted as heroic, assertive, monumental. Here, the body withdraws. It folds into itself. It hesitates. It listens. The domestic rubber gloves — green and yellow — introduce another layer of coded femininity: care, maintenance, cleaning, the invisible labor traditionally assigned to women. Worn over a partially removed white garment, they blur the boundary between protection and costume, between intimacy and performance. The white draped fabric surrounding the figure references classical sculpture and religious iconography, but it also evokes a provisional stage — a space where identity can be rehearsed without resolution. “Practicing Femininity” does not claim transformation. It proposes vulnerability as a method. Within the framework of fluid femininity, I understand gender not as a fixed state but as a choreography of learned gestures — repeated, resisted, and sometimes reclaimed. This work asks: What happens when a male body allows itself to inhabit softness without irony? When femininity is not appropriated, but practiced as a form of unlearning? The images are not declarations. They are rehearsals.
Carlos Gambino Choren

PRACTICING FEMINITY

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Title: Practicing Femininity
Artist: Carlos Gambino
Year: 2026
Medium: Archival pigment print on Fine Art paper
Paper: Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm (image size)
Edition: Limited edition of 5 + 2 AP
Framing: Unframed / or Available framed upon request

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Gewicht 2 kg
Größe 40 × 30 × 2 cm
Entstehungsjahr

2025
Material

Papel Fotografico