Lukas-Julius Keijser – Daddy’s Little Princess

Lukas-Julius Keijser – Daddy’s Little Princess

Lukas-Julius Keijser grants insight into the history of Dutch gay culture by shuttering the gaze with a curtain. Until today it is unusual to draw the curtains over windows that are facing the street in the Netherlands. To do so would be considered a sign that the inhabitants have something to hide. Gay bars constitute the exception, what draw the curtain to provide of a community unmolested by the outside gaze. The lettering applied to the curtain with bleach ‘Daddy’s Little Princess’ can simultaneously be read as a quotation of pop culture and as queer self-representation.