Evidence of My Sexual Misdemeanour

The titles of the photographs come from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)- a psychological test that the Turkish military uses on gay men wishing to be exempt from the compulsory military service. The MMPI and other set of investigations are used to ascertain the ‘true’ sexuality of the examinee, as a way of legitimising otherness and surveilling bodies that they deem dangerous. In 'Evidence of My Sexual Misdemeanour', I photographically respond to the individual statements from the MMPI test in my own domestic space and handprint them in the darkroom, both territories serving as my sites of subversion.