About
Calayah invites us to reconsider how femininity, sexuality, and identity are translated, imitated, and technologically produced and reproduced. Through this performance that converts females into intersex subjects with dildos via an operation at once excruciatingly painful and strangely sweet, she explores the false sexual empowerment granted to women within the phallocentric script of pegging. Her work exposes the gendered masquerade and performativity of sexuality, interrogating the disciplinary power of patriarchal sexual scripts over women’s embodied subjectivity.
Calayah thrives on creating intense tension in her works, presenting an excess that provokes a visceral reaction akin to overindulgence in sweets leading to nausea. Through this aesthetic of excess, she constructs a beautiful yet violently compelling new world. Her works seductively draw viewers in, posing the tantalizing question: will you take a bite?