A Man In Public Space
For one week, Karla Hiraldo Voleau slipped into the skin of her 'masculine alter ego' in order to study the changes in attitudes towards her, and to observe how her own behaviour changed. Her exploration takes the form of self-portraits, texts, snapshots and video stills. She immerses the viewer in her unique, terrifying, funny and exciting experience. Her installation questions the influence of gender identity on our actions and in public spaces. The first set of images in 'A Man In Public Space', created in Lausanne, were presented as part of the festival 'Bieler Fototage' in 2021; for the second part of the series, Karla Hiraldo Voleau has repeated the experiment, this time in Paris. Inspired by the rise in feminist demonstrations and woman artists such as Adrian Piper and Katarzyna Kozyra, she has created a photographic performance about transgressing genders and the codes associated with them. With the help of the SFX artist Mélanie Vargas, she once again slips into the skin of her 'male alter ego' in order to study questions of masculinity in public space.
