Karu

This mural was made for @artepublicaleiria with the collaboration of @jhnrqs (João Henriques) and @karuzzzzz (Karuline). Thank you for the amazing help and the good times spent there! Also thank you @notguedes and @helia_carreira for the help! Finally thank you to @projectomatilha
And @carla.cs.tavares for the invitation!.

The idea emerged after a painting I did in 2018 in which the person I portrayed had highly androgynous features and was particularly hard to figure out its gender purely on society’s standard feminine/masculine traits.

I wanted to further explore the concept about people whose physical traits are not reliable for a society that forces labels on everyone, challenging everyone’s perspectives and creating discussion about the inner self, the various ways of manifesting personality and express the everyone’s own sense of Self.