Andil Gosine, Everything for a boy who sings Celine Dion in the Shower (2022)

Andil Gosine     
Everything for a boy who sings Celine Dion in the Shower 
from Les Trois, Hommes de Paris: Le premier, l’autre et l’un
2022  
Inkjet on Mohawk Superfine 120lb eggshell cover  
variable edition of 108  (text colours vary)
21 x 17 inches
 
“Maybe my favourite thing I’ve ever done, because it’s a statement of my unabashed happiness at the peak of being in love. My first love was obsessed with Madonna, and the second, the greatest love, with Céline, and whenever he belted her French songs in the shower, it provided a window into the pureness of his soul.”
-- Andil Gosine
 
The photograph that forms the backdrop of the poster is by 19th century photographer Félix Morin, whom has been a muse for Gosine through a decade of his practice and is the subject of his next book, Félix & I: an intimate engagement with colonial portraiture. The book will explore, among other subjects, the photographer's sexuality and capture of Caribbean people in Martinique, Trinidad and Guyana.