Faris Cuchi and Mzamo Nondlwana formulate with OPERATION DOLLZZ an artistic, performative critique of a gay “Gym Culture” as a politics of desire and visibility within the LGBTQIA* community. This culture—once used as a resistant tool—reproduces the same exclusionary and discriminatory mechanisms of a heteronormative gym culture that it once opposed.
Dazzling and subversive, with glitter and incense, Faris and Mzamo take over the space, break down visual habits, and put the aesthetics of trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming and femme bodies front and center. They are here to conquer this gym!