Ad Corpus—a play on the term “ad hominem”—looks back at what originally made me feel othered—my body. Inspired by a stay at a house with mirrors on many of its walls and surfaces which forced me to be constantly faced with my physical presence, this work examines the fortified relationship between queerness, queer visual culture, and corporeality. Acceptance of a non-normative bodies into queer visual spaces is often predicated on that body’s ability to assimilate into traditional expectations of beauty. Using a visual language of “body neutrality,” this series contains photographs of queer bodies that are meant to be neither grotesque nor beautiful, as well as particular interactions between queer bodies, reflections, and environments.
