Théophylle Dcx, guest artist 2024

Théophylle Dcx’s artistic practice blends poetic writing, performance and video. Through these mediums, he explores and stages his different social and political coordinates as a young queer, an HIV-positive person, a sex worker, an artist and a partygoer with a passion for music, dance and clubbing. Affectivity, love and desire play an important role in the narratives he deploys – in his blogging videos as in his public performances. The power of collective celebration, the connection to others, the force of words, the possibilities and limits of the body are all subjects that run through the devices, always situated, that he presents to the public. Often collaborative, his projects include friends, artists, activists and authors with whom he feels a sense of community. His work treats the body as an archive and an embodied political gesture, on which appear the ebb and flow of history, the stakes of social struggles and the need for emancipation from contemporary normative regimes.