Iztok Klančar

Tjerre Lucas Bijker and Chet Julius Bugter approached me to make a photo series that would be given life through the following ideals:

• PROMOTING the SUBVERSIVE nature of queerness
  
  
• FILTH as a multifaceted carnal embodiment
  
  
• Handmade aspect
  

My work was to react to their manifesto, even to expand its boundaries.

As I was producing the photo series, Kuntenserven were given clues about my queer ideals and artistic process. In a later phase, they reacted to my photographs with their writing as a full-circle research method.

Kuntenserven Mag. 

Issue Zero

2024

Founders—editors—writers: Tjerre Lucas Bijker, Chet Julius Bugter

Photography: Iztok Klančar

Graphic Design: Özgür Deniz Koldaş

This issue is supported by
the Creative Industries Fund NL

Using myself as the model,
I activated a sensorial alter ego whose fetish material are substances.

I engaged in a step by step process of discovery, from the bathroom into various landscapes.

I rejected the commercial notion of a gay fetish that can be bought in a sex shop. I made it my own, fluid, adventurous, as well as meditative.

Gradually, my character grew a cinematic look, suggesting some kind of mystery (a back story) and something that is about to happen or could be at stake.

By exploring alter egos, I released pieces of my true identity. Through making it all physical I made my inner demons visible.