We Are All Gay Cyborgs*
2024 

What would my, what would my father do?
Do I take a bite, take a bite of the fruit?**


The photographs of Matthieu Croizier portray desire, love, and excessive bodies on the verge of monstrosity. His self-portraits and photographs of partners examine various aspects of sexuality, presented here as an experimental vehicle of self-discovery and liberation. Particularly important is a detachment from traditional ideas concerning roles and beauty, which the artist's work seeks to question and to deconstruct. The series We Are All Gay Cyborgs (2024) is dedicated to various aspects of queer eroticism and uses elements from pop and subculture to depict new forms of desire and powerlessness.

Individual body parts are often the focus of the intensely colourful images and lend a physical dimension to the act of viewing: a tongue touches a flower stem, a mouth closes over a plump fruit, a naked lover turns his back to the camera. Croizier breaks with the ordinary clichés and traditional roles of gay culture by staging hairy, deformed, full-figured bodies as erotic and autonomous. Queer desire is not portrayed in a fetishised way, but rather brought into focus with lust and playfulness.

Text written by Jana Johanna Haeckel for the exhition Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art at Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Munich.



*Yes we are
**Extract of the song Fruit, by Oliver Sim