#kyle meyer

Kyle Meyer is a multidisciplinary visual artist who has worked between eSwatini (formerly known as Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually layered and complicated as they are visually lush and intricate.

As a gay American photographer, Meyer shot his current series titled Interwoven, in eSwatini, where a third of the population is HIV-positive and homosexuality is illegal. Portraits from this series reflect an interest in infusing digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts and in giving voice to silenced members of the LGBTQ+ community. He creates intimate portraits of gay men wearing a Dutch wax head wrap, traditionally worn by women. Tension between the ncessity of the individuals to hide their queerness for basic survival and their desire to express themselves openly inform both the subject and the means of fabricating Meyer's unique works.