ANATOMY, IDENTITY

Lissy Gollnik

We live our lives in a society that has a lot of ideas about what we should be like, look like, act like. A binary system divides us into men and women from the day we are born. Female attributes are often claimed as something weak, less capable, while men like to be seen as always strong, leaving little room for human weakness and failure. Although questioning these gender norms is a thing, we still have a long way ahead of us to achieve some kind of equality. We might be used to a woman in a suit, but a man in a dress still is quite a rare sight for the public eye. People who decide to free themselves entirely from the binary system are even met with less understanding. Lissy Gollnik created a visual safe space for queer people who decided to go against gender norms. Using her analogue medium format camera, she captures the performance art of drag, cross dressing, and the path of finding oneself in being nonbinary.