Diagramming Fluidity: Designing A Research Method - Floriane Misslin

“There are worlds I envision, worlds I experience, but that I don’t recognize in visual culture. I miss seeing intimacy of queer people and people of colour in fashion photography. I photograph what I notice is absent to make it present.  I make it real. I make us real.” —Nicole Ngai, Diagramming Fluidity

Diagramming Fluidity investigates the ways in which gender fluidity is actualized in fashion photography. For this work, Floriane Misslin interviewed fashion editors, art directors and photographers whose work challenges the fashion binary in order to dissect the history and future of gender fluidity in fashion imagery. Using the resulting interviews as a starting point, Misslin reorganized these transcribed texts and diagrammed a visual manifesto for the future of fluidity in visual culture. These manifestos were printed via risography, along with an essay about Misslin’s research and methodology.

2021, Language
Author:  Floriane Misslin
Published by: Onomatopee (Netherlands)
Folded softcover with vellum wrap, 9”x11.75”, 98pp, Risograph printed with special colors, black elastic band secures the issue