Anne-Sophie Guillet

Together

Through her ongoing series Together, Anne-Sophie Guillet suggests that we change our perceptions and attitudes toward emotionality, friendship, and sex as we relate to others and ourselves. She questions social injunctions - the heteronormative codes that weight on us and regiment our lives and relationships. By breaking the stranglehold, she encounters people who are creating their own love models and finding relationships that truly reflect their desires.

She does not believe relationships should be competed or pitted against each other; they much co-exist. That’s the message she aims to communicate through her work, and the resulting images, translate the different ties that bind the subjects. The portraits lead viewers to think about interpersonal rela- tionships beyond the scheme of roman- tic love, since so many deviate from the norms of exclusivity, gender binary and possession as proof of love, which tend to emerge as the only options in our traditionalist societies. All the individuals here reimagined their own reference systems to embrace apsects such as transparency, autonomy, compersion, empowerment or just a mantra to live and let live.