Mahalia taje’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in their personal experience as a non binary transmasculine artist. They use art as a space for documentation, resistance and reconstruction, where the intimate becomes political. Every transformation of the body carries a social and historical charge, and their work explores these tensions through photography, performance, archive and visual experimentation.
Their research focuses on masculinity as a phenomenon in perpetual mutation, perceived, performed and internalized. Through their installations, publications and performances, taje seeks to make visible norms and their contradictions, rather than to deconstruct them. Their work subverts dominant visual codes to propose new representations of masculinity and trans identity, escaping rigid categorization. In so doing, they invite the public to engage in a critical dialogue about the representation and multiplicity of masculinities.