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Ophelio

By Day Magee – View Artist’s Profile

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.”
-Ophelia, ‘Hamlet’, W. Shakespeare

Categories: Day Magee, Nua 2021, Video portrait Tags: Artist, ArtIsWork, Black and white, Day Magee, Hamlet, Make Your World Creative, Monochromatic, Nua Collective, Ophelio, Original Artwork, Queer, Video portrait
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Artist

Day Magee

Year

2019

Material

Video Portrait

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“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.”
-Ophelia, ‘Hamlet’, W. Shakespeare

Historically, the queer’s self-actualisation is dogged by pathology at the hands of  heteronormativity, its associations rooted in abjection, these artefacts embodying themselves  sexually via internalised homophobia in self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-destruction characterises many a queer’s road to their self-reconciliation, if indeed that end be ultimately met at all.

Inspired by the analyses of queer theorists Leo Bersani, David M. Halperin, and Tim Dean of the  death drive’s exhibition in queer sexual praxes, the artist here reinterprets the Shakespearean role  of Ophelia, Hamlet’s lover who ultimately took her own life, through a contemporary lens of  gender and sexuality in video portraiture.

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