Alexei Mansour is a Philadelphia based artist & photographer. He graduated from Tyler School of Art with a BFA in Painting and Art History minor and is a former member of the artist collective New Boone. He has always been influenced by the rich traditions of his eastern cultural and religious upbringing, and has centered his work around exploring subjective queerness through these various multiplicities of identity. Alexei portrays his personal journey to find a sense of belonging through interrogations of sexuality and representation by using symbols that represent these struggles as ongoing transformations. Sprawling in their range of references, his current work harnesses the visual grammar of Greco-Roman Antiquity in order to explore the fluid, amorphous nature of queerness. Alexei’s talismanic works offer reminders of the queer homosociality of Antiquity and ask viewers to imagine themselves as corporeal vessels, self-reflective containers filled with their own history.
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