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BODY COPY 

BODY COPY is a photo-text series exploring the performance of queer masculinities in digital culture.  

 

From a data set of one thousand lines of found text collected from male same-sex hook-up sites, Moreno chose 43 adverts and attempted to create "ideal" responses through self-portrait. Acting as stylist, set decorator, subject and photographer, each image was made on a shoe-string budget in a corner of the artist's flat.

 

Moreno is in recovery from body dysmorphic and eating disorders, and the project began as a means of addressing the crisis of being photographed and of seeing themselves. Moving beyond the psychotherapeutic, the series explores how queer masculinities are unstable constructions, rooted in material and digital cultures and inextricably linked to the interests of neoliberalism.

EXHIBITIONS

Circulation(s), Paris, France

Head On, Sydney, Australia 

Bibliothèque Levi Strauss, Paris, France

Preus National Museum of Photography, Horten, Norway

Photofusion, London, UK (solo show)

Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia

Singapore International Photo Festival, Singapore

Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark

Emergentes at Encontros da Imagem, Portugal

PUBLICATIONS

Publico (Portugal): interview by Ana Marques Maia

Polka (France): essay by Leonor Matet

Lens Culture: essay by Joanna Cresswell 

LOUPE (cover and lead feature): interview by Megan Wilson De Le Mare

Photomonitor: exhibition review by Ricardo Reveron Blanco 

British Journal of Photography 

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