Gaze.S

The starting point of the concept “gaze” is to look at the world from specific perspectives. Gaze.S deploys a radical manifesto around the definition of a “sex worker gaze”. During this reflexive, autobiographical and performative journey, these images of the world dwell on the gray areas that delimit submission to the injunctions and re-appropriations of dominant norms from their experiences as artists and sex workers.

 

Marianne Chargois is sex worker, artist and co-organizer of queer events about bodies and sexualities such as the SNAP and the Brussels Porn Film Festival. She has been developing documentary performances and videos on various issues related to sex work, collaborating with contemporary choreographers and campaigning for sex workers' rights for over 15 years. She is actively involved in UTSOPI, the Belgian union of sex workers, the first European country to decriminalize sex work.

Romy Alizée is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught sex worker. Her work tells a subjective story of desire, emancipation and lesbian identity, around her own image and that of her community. She is currently working on a radio documentary about lesbian sex workers, while her first literary short story, Si y a du vertige, y a de l'amour, will be published in autumn 2023.

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Conception: Marianne Chargois / Performance, texts, photos, videos: Romy Alizée et Marianne Chargois / Artistic advisory: Matthieu Hocquemiller / Sound design: Baxter Halter et Vivian Allard / Lighting design: Abigail Fowler / Production: Art Whore Connection – With the support of ASPASIE.