El perro de México Adgehovah DG
Documented in Mexico City in collaboration with Captain John and Ulises Gorka, ”El perro de México Adgehovah DG” portrays a part of the BDSM everyday life of Adgehovah DG, a Mexican born conceptual artist and performer who lives part of his daily life as a puppie and identifies himself as an homosexual persona – psychiatric patient.
This experience captures his intimacy at his home, a huge place caught in time where all the walls are black and holds a mysterious aura.
He lives with her aunt, a person over 80 years old and full accustomed to all creative expressions made by the artist, even the most disruptive.
His home contains many disturbing objects, like the wheelchair that appears in some photographs, which was initially belonged by his mother and eventually used by his grandmother before she passed away.
He uses it frequently as a regular chair and his aunt doesn’t see any problem with that. He does not place any greater burden or superstitious attribution on some objects that hold similar stories, however impressive they may be. That’s because that have been part of their life, and he guards them very carefully and with a lot of respect.
In contrast, is also close and very passionate to many vernacular traditions, like the Mexican national sport and mariachi music.
Even when he does not talk about strong political issues, he always raises narratives that seek to break social norms, like combining traditional andas an emblem of his self view on traditional fetichism.
This project is also being an important retrospective that shows all his personal changes mainly through the body and along with the transformations in space,
Captain John captures a crucial moment in Adgehovah’s life through a very natural body-movement study, bringing the possibility to open the door to reflect on an unconventional dynamic that displays a concept of an underground family.
Written by Adgehovah DG in Third Person.
Credit
Assistant Photographer | Ulises Gorka
Portrait of Captain John + Adgehovah DG by Ulises Gorka