Since 2021, photographer Rebekka Deubner has been meeting, following, and documenting people involved with male (or “testicular”) contraception. Rethinking notions of intimacy, masculinity, the gendered distribution of mental load, and parenthood, this practice — existing in France since the 1980s — reclaims a disregarded public health issue at the individual or interpersonal scales.
saisons thermiques (2021-2025) views male contraception as an entry point to rethink both our relational models and systems of representation. From a performance by artist and choreographer Pau Simon, to consultations at Marseille’s family planning center with the 13ticules collective, and the making of DIY contraceptive tools, a variety of contexts,encounters, and photographies unfold throughout the work. Between portraits of men scenes of collective life or romantic intimacy, Rebekka Deubner’s saisons thermiques reaffirms the body as a space of political expression and a site for both individual and collective activism.
With a text by Hélène Giannecchini
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A project led with the support from the Centre National des arts plastiques (National Center for Visual Arts, France) and BétonSalon (Paris, FR)
