Sarjon Azouz’ installation, titled Bimbo Zygote Project, is a literal carrier or capsule of sorts. It is a bed with pillows that contain screens showing a video work where another world, an alternative view on being human, unfolds. In this beyond-human world presented by Azouz, genetically engineered sex workers with chronic alter egos (the Bimbos) trade in testosterone on the grey market. A vlog-style video, combining tiktok clips of one of the Bimbos talking about her daily life as a sex worker, is interspersed with feverish spinning shots of multiple Bimbo figures posing and running through a desolate space, while a voiceover recites a manifesto about these creatures. This recent graduation work is exemplary of Azouz’ artistic practice, in which vanity, alienation and identity politics are important themes. Seductive and conveying a feeling that lies somewhere between existential crisis and hilarious camp, the universe created by Azouz is one of many alter-egos—extensions of the self. Through these characters the artist seeks to reclaim the narrative imposed upon them.

Sarjon Azouz is a multidisciplinary artist, working with vanity as a research space in identity politics. They graduated in 2022 from BEAR, ArtEZ Arnhem. Across durational mediums of performance, writing and audio-visual works, Sarjon’s practice revolves around finding ways to conduct spaces of dialogue between their many alter egos. These characters find agency through sound, words, and props which are made and used with an accelerationist approach as a research method, resulting with provisional compositions for various space and media interventions. Sarjon is currently artist in residence at Museum Arnhem, selected artist and curator for Biennale Gelderland 2022-2023 and since 2019 programmer for the queer intervention group Queeructation in Arnhem.