Untitled (Kiss Me, I’m ...

digital print on metal mounted under Plexiglas, 21 x 29.7 cm

Dafné Boggeri creates installations that engage the behaviors, actions, and visual and auditory performances of the participants, whether they are collaborators or members of the audience.

Through a stroll through the urban landscape, a collection of gestures, badges and posters available to visitors, and installations, she interprets and reimagines the signs of identity and gender that shape self-perception. This young Italian artist, who is active in the feminist and queer scenes, draws inspiration from Drag King culture (which critically reinterprets masculine dress codes and physical characteristics) and from transgender people, who do not typically define themselves by their sex (which most of them reject), but rather by their gender, thereby challenging the identity that society assigns to them.