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Nil Yalter, Le Chevalier d’Eon, 1978

Nil Yalter

Le Chevalier d’Eon, 1978
Two vintage polaroids, a black & white video, black & white unique photographs, two monochrome paintings
Photographs and paintings: 68.5 x 52 cm (each)
Polaroids: 21 x 28.5 cm (each)
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‘Arguably the first artwork from a Middle Eastern context to engage with transgender identity’ (Omar Kholeif, Art Forum, April 2017), Le Chevalier d’Eon (1978) is a seminal, multi-media installation comprising...
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‘Arguably the first artwork from a Middle Eastern context to engage with transgender identity’ (Omar Kholeif, Art Forum, April 2017), Le Chevalier d’Eon (1978) is a seminal, multi-media installation comprising video, paintings, polaroids and photographs.

The work is an expansive portrait of a man who decided he wanted to live as a woman. Referencing the Chevalier d’Eon, a famous 18th century French diplomat, soldier and spy, of ambiguous gender, Yalter’s friend transforms himself into a woman on screen, putting on jewelry and female clothes; large, teardrop earrings and fishnet stockings. It is a heightened dramatization of gender transition, underscored by an accompanying soundtrack of Baroque music by Domenico Scarlatti.

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