About
Emmanuel Barrouyer est un artiste visuel et comédien basé à Paris.
Ses médiums artistiques sont la photographie et le collage analogique ou numérique.
Son travail photographique s’articule principalement autour de deux axes : la question du genre et de l’identité, ainsi que le Sacré dans l’Humain, qu’il soit masculin, féminin ou autre.
Habitué à travailler avec son propre corps, il se met également en scène dans des autoportraits où il se dévoile tout en se dissimulant.
Dans ses collages, il crée un imaginaire hybride et décalé. Il aime inventer un univers qui redéfinit les codes de la masculinité et de la féminité d’une manière résolument queer, poétique, voire humoristique.
Emmanuel Barrouyer is a visual artist and actor based in Paris.
His artistic mediums are photography and analog or digital collages.
His photographic work mainly focuses on two main lines: the question of gender and identity, and the Sacred within the Human, male, female or other.
Accustomed to work with his body, he also stages himself in self-portraits where he unveils and hides at the same time.
In his collages, he creates a hybrid and offbeat imaginary. He likes to invent a universe redefining the codes of masculinity and femininity in a totally queer, poetic, even humorous way.
Photo © Fabrice Robin
The French artist, actor, photographer and performer Emmanuel Barrouyer addresses contemporary issues of gender and identity, in his work. He most often uses himself in various staged self portraits, where it appears as if he is himself, but the ambiguity of self and identity are always close by, so that portraits of Emmanuel are often not portraits at all.
Emmanuel's artwork dealing with gender and identity started off in 2013 when he began to impersonate female friends, as in the piece As Julie, and . This gave him the impetus to start exploring who we are, and more importantly, who others see us as. How do others identify us? Is it real, or is it delusional. Does it help liberate us, or does it increasingly imprison us?
Emmanuel is an artist who wants to know. He doesn't play with gender and identity in order to shock, in order to offend, in order to make a name for himself. He genuinely wants to know who he is, whether he is the amalgamation of the beliefs of others, or if there is something at the core of self that is intrinsically him, and intrinsically knows that it is him, no matter what might be added or subtracted later through the journey of life, and that is something we all want and need to know.
'As Julie', 2013.