Questioning Identity and Gender Stereotypes Through Performance...

Questioning Identity and Gender Stereotypes Through Performance with @damiansiqueiros

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(This interview was conducted in Spanish.)

Mexican photographer Damián Siqueiros (@damiansiqueiros) found in dance a vehicle for expression that goes beyond the beauty of the body in motion — it’s a canvas where ideas and questions about gender, equality and diversity can be captured.

“During a photo shoot, the idea is not simply to create pretty positions, but to seek the position and movement that best reflects the character’s emotions, the character’s story and the subject we’re dealing with,” says Damián, who lives in Montreal and photographs artists, circus performers and dancers, including those of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. He aspires to create provocative images that challenge prejudice and question the spectator. “What I’m looking for is the confluence of beauty, strength, vulnerability, the strange, the unique — something different that stretches the paradigms of beauty we have set,” he says.

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