TOGETHER

Through her ongoing series Together, Anne-Sophie Guillet suggests that we change our perceptions and attitudes to- ward emotionality, friendship, and sex as we relate to others and ourselves. She questions social injunctions - the heter- onormative codes that weight on us and regiment our lives and relationships. By breaking the stranglehold, she encoun- ters people who are creating their own love models and finding relationships that truly reflect their desires. Anne-Sophie Guillet does not believe re- lationships should be competed or pitted against each other; they much co-exist. That’s the message she aims to commu- nicate through her work, and the result- ing images, translate the different ties that bind the subjects. The portraits lead view- ers to think about interpersonal relation- ships beyond the scheme of heteronor- mative love, since so many deviate from the norms of exclusivity, gender binary, romantism, age 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, comp- ersion, empowerment or just a mantra to live and let live.