Dendrophilia
Created in partnership with florist Orquidea Dracula, make-up artist Jakob Luis Bach and photographer Diego Moreno’s project explores a utopian world ungoverned by sex. With no name and a scrotum for a chin, the model plays a non-binary character who has a lust for plants. By de-mystifying the sexual organs and placing them on the human face like any other public body part, Bach frees sex organs from the social constructs of gender and sexuality. Instead, through special effects make-up, the artist offers a socio-critical thought on both standards of beauty and our conventional identity roles. Stylist Javier Blanca further disintegrates these age-old constructs by playing with the sexual neutrality of a plant. The un-named character’s sexual neutrality builds a connection with the plants objectivity to manifest a hybrid creature—half-human, half-plant. This is symbolised in the bouquet of flowers that blooms heads instead of flowers, prophesizing the appearance of a new race in a sexless world.
photography DIEGO MORENO
styling, model and creative direction JAVIER DE LA BLANCA
make up artist, sfx prosthetics and creative direction JAKOB LUIS BACH
flowers collaboration with ORQUIDEA DRACULA, LABORATORIO FLORAL
clothing CHROMOSOME RESIDENCE
words ELLA BARDSLEY
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