Jürgen Klauke placed the human body and its identity at the center of his photo series.[1] This work plays a pioneering role in the development of the "Body Art" where the body is integral to the artists' work. Klauke orchestrates himself in gestures and poses the society qualifies as typically male or typically female. By the use of clothings and accessories he switches between the genders, from male to female and vice versa demonstrating "the sexual ambivalency of the body image".[2] He orchestrates femininity with make-up, dresses and oversized vulvoplasties which he presents in expressive gestures. These "genital prostheses"[3] exhibit a fictive body to the viewers, an "imaginate genital"[4] defining thus the blurred boundaries between the true and the displayed genital.[5] Here gender stereotypes determined by our society and social behaviour are critically analysed.

Biography: http://www.juergenklauke.de/

(Translation: K. Seifter)