Tricksters

Description

Central to recent developments within Farin’s conceptual framework, archetypes such as the ‘trickster’ or the ‘troubadour’ serve as metaphorical proxies for the ambiguity of perceived versus lived truths inherent in the human experience. Often understood within the hermeneutic context as characters who challenge the status-quo through dextrous combinations of humor, mischief, and cunning, the trickster is heralded as an instigator of disruption and a bringer of change. Farin fittingly employs the trickster as a visual tool in their exploration of social binaries such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, questioning the relevance of specific restrictive methodologies of understanding in provocative defense of a recontextualization of that crucial space in-between.