delirium clemens

The amazing story of Andrej Pejić, a young man of Bosnian descent who has become a famous model – for women’s fashion, creating a “third space”, a gender bypass as it were: an embodiment of the utopias of cultural theory as formulated e.g. by Homi Bhabha and Judith Butler?

However, the really interesting question is not his/her sexual orientation – as stupid journalists keep asking – but what created his “in-betweenness”: was it the rejection of the prevailing masculinity concepts of his old country of origin? is it war trauma, at least experienced from a second generation? In any case, there seems to be a Bosnian prehistory which nobody has investigated so far.

Btw., he is the man who outraged censors because he exposed his “breasts”…
What if the whole thing around him is just a clever marketing gimmick?

Photo (c) Andrej Pejic Page; text above (c) Ruthner, 2012

>Article (c) THE TELEGRAPH / THE AGE, 2011

>another article on beauty & gender (c) exPonto, 2012

>another video (there are plenty of them on the internet)

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