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Brandon Gercara (they/them) ~ École supérieure d’art de La Réunion (ESA Réunion), Le Port, Reunion Island

It’s not just about art, it’s about activism. Brandon’s work focuses on a critical study of the overall dynamics of dominations in a post-colonial context. They seek to highlight the plurality of gender identities as well as the sexual diversity in Reunion Island.

The performance has a major place in their work, it allows them, especially through the lip-sync process, to reappropriate texts in order to question them or to support their words. Brandon has grasped the power of both eloquence and humour. With PD – Pour Demain (FT – For Tomorrow) – in french PD is an homophobic insult that can be translated by faggot – Brandon Gercara became Dominique Payet the leader of the political party PD standing against hetero-cisgendered-normative patriarchy.

In addition to his plastic and activist work, Brandon has created the association Requeer which aims to archive the actions of LGBTQI+ movements in Reunion Island as well as to create new spaces for reflection and dialogue around the issues of intersectionality.

Léonore Camus-Govoroff

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Léonore Camus-Govoroff is a Paris-based non-binary artist and curator who carries out multidisciplinary visual work between performances, installations, texts and curating. Since 2019, they participate in the development of the artistic collective Alien She, created by Cléo Farenc, which aims to promote the work of young artists who identify as women, transgender, queer and non-binary. Their curatorial actions take different forms such as exhibitions, short-film screenings, workshops for young artists…

They graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris with a master’s degree in Fine Arts and are currently completing their education in “Queer Art and Queer Curating” at the Node Center, Berlin.

For this edition of Curator Picks Léonore introduces four emergent non-binary artists. In their various works the notions of community and collectivity have an important place, whether they are linked to queer identities or not. In their respective practices, these four artists use their art as a political tool.