ZWEI

Gender often seems obvious to many people. It can feel as though it is a fundamental and unquestioned part of our society and of ourselves. For some of us, however, identifying with a gender is far from simple. It can be accompanied by uncertainty, fear, and self-doubt, especially when we don’t meet stereotypical expectations or the cultural and societal norms. This photographic work explores how gender is perceived, lived, and negotiated within the queer community - particularly in moments where binary understandings of gender begin to dissolve or reach their limits.

While the LGBTQIA+ community is often seen as a space beyond traditional gender norms, expectations, projections, and visual codes continue to shape how gender is read and interpreted, even within these contexts. The work engages with this tension: between the deconstruction of gender roles and their subtle reproduction. At its core lies the observation that, even within queer spaces, the desire for categorisation persists - not as something fixed, but as something that continuously takes shape in relation to others, shifting and being redefined over time.