“The portrait project is about migration and mobility. J. Jackie Baier August 2009 |
| What is the portrait project ? The Portrait Project is a collaboration between warehouse9 and photo artist J. Jackie Baier supported by the danish Arts Council DIVA program
The project emerges from Warehouse9′s involvement with the queer community, the local environment Vesterbro in Copenhagen and the international arts scene. For several years Jackie Baier has portrayed transsexuals, sex workers and personalities from the queer sexual underground, which was also show at a solo exhibition in Warehouse9 in Fall 2007. Through the DIVA residency program it is now possible for Jackie to work “on location” in Copenhagen for a period of 3 month in the fall and winter 2009. “As a professional transsexual artist I feel related to this environment and the artistic challenge for me is to give images and faces back to the people they belong to. All these people come with faces. I see their beauty and I want to help them to get their right for a visual representation free from the taboos of the middle class society and free from sensational journalism and “art photography”. In the warehouse there will be set up a photo studio, where people are invited to come and have their portraits made. The deal is that the model gets a copy and the wall gets a copy. In the end of this ongoing process we will have made a lot of portraits given to the individual models which will have their own destiny and stories to tell depending on where they go to. There will also be an exhibition and hopefully a book with stories, portraits and statements that show the exiting & beautiful faces of migration & mobility.
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| What will be the result
The result is a series of portraits that will be given to the involved models as well as an exhibition and a hopefully book about the project. |
| Get your portrait !
If you are interested in being involved in the project as a model or as someone who is involved with the sexual migration and mobility scene, please do get in contact with us and visit us in the photo studio. You will get your own original art photography taken in a friendly and personal environment. This is a purely artistic project and no names will be registered. Please contact us on the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135478094532&ref=ts or on the email: portrait(at)warehouse9.dk |

