Under construction
Taboo & precariousness of the masculine principle
The lack of accessibility of heated briefs led me to design and build my own testicular enhancement tool.
This movement to reappropriate my body, by seeding raw material for a practical purpose, was based on making and eroticizing the experience of testicular ascent. The desire to share my creation led me to develop a craftsman's posture rooted in movement and materiality. Working with silicone and the shape of the ring led me to become one with the shapeless brutality of the material and the minimalist curvature of the ring.
Modelling, kneading in a geographical intimacy (the manufacturing laboratory and my body, my movement to manufacture), I want to share this experience that has made sense in me and my contraceptive practice so that everyone can feel through craft the change of state of a material, here silicone, that will echo the change of their material, there in them sperm.
From doing outside oneself, to doing within oneself, provoking an erotic, intimate, carnal interiorization of one's movement, whether visible or invisible.
To recount how it was possible for you to obtain a ring and start reeling them in de facto would be beside the point. I'd rather express what's going through my mind right now with regard to the piecemeal movements that were the path to the realization of this ring.
It took me 35 years of life to begin to see the societal and social schism on contraception. The idea of patriarchal domination had been with me for a long time. I've revisited it through various experiences in my daily life. These societal and cultural imprints are deeply rooted in me. And it's finally every day that I relearn how to get rid of them. Of course, like everyone else, I've been thinking about mastering shared fertility. But how could I achieve it without using withdrawal, abstinence or condoms? The media's hammering on the advent of a pill for men and the lack of alternatives convinced me, in my world of habit, that the burden could only be borne by women. I waited wisely, for an institution to introduce me to new practices, whose light could not pierce the opacity of the dominant power legitimized since the Renaissance 5 centuries ago.
Remember the archetypal image of the foundation of our modern society: Merchant, Artist, Craftsman, Explorer. These 4 figures are reminiscent of the 4 evangelist apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Renaissance, a concept of European historians justifying progress and modernity from the march of Judeo-Christianity........
Maxime Labrit - 06-18-2019