cock [&] balls

By Mats Dahlsberg

Using cheeky double entendre, I aim to explore the modern queer experience in relation to social media, body image, sex, love, and self-worth. Through the queering of familiar icons and homage to my queer ancestors, I aim to express my gratitude for the rejection of cis-heteronormativity and the embrace of boundlessness. My depictions of the human form break the confines of the linear body and push to critique the absurdity of the accepted binary gender structure and beauty ideals while exploring the possibilities of the noncorporeal, trans, body.

My work explores the vastness of life in many forms, from single cell organisms, to bugs, to wholly imagined forms as an invitation to viewers to examine what connects living creatures and destroy human-made hierarchies. This piece explores dating apps and the illusion of infinite choice. It draws on the works of Katharina Fritsch and Yayoi Kusama.