Gems Wang

Trans love is earnestness, play, specificity, and the rejection of the dominant understanding of love as competition, performance, or violence. Trans love creates hidden, intimate, supportive spaces within a hostile world that views trans beauty as something to fetishize, invade, and destroy. Trans love is opacity.t4t ("trans for trans") is a site-specific video installation located in a high-traffic, high-visibility public area. However, the area beneath the monitor is secluded and intimate; to see the 36-minute film, the audience must trespass upon this private trans space, kneeling, clambering, and squeezing their bodies into submissive positions in full public view.