Psychopathia Sexualis

A family of 11 so-called flat daddies hangs as display systems for the statement T-shirt project HEN. The flat daddies are first and foremost a gang of queers who do not abide by gender norms, but are quite indifferent regarding where on a given gender spectrum they themselves are— or the ideas of what a daddy can be. A Flat Daddy (also Flat Mommy and/or Flat Soldier) is a life-size cardboard cutout of a human as a replacement for someone absent from home.

Flat Daddies became popular in the United States after the start of the Iraq War, when spouses and children were left alone after soldiers were called up for duty, and from the mid-2000s, it became a small industry to produce cardboard versions of the absent. The T-shirts have new prints designed by Filip Berg from T-estimony, and the project HEN was created as a collaboration between the fashion brand HAN Kjobenhavn and Overgaden

Press: Contemporary Art Library, Kuba Paris, Overgaden, Artillery Magazine, Eflux, Kunstkritikk, Minh Dynasty, Art Matter