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A portrait of flourishing desire in a body ever-changingAs she examines her life experience and traumas with great care, Delporte faces the questions about gender and sexuality that both haunt and entice her. Deeply informed by her personal relationships as much as queer art and theory, Portrait of a Body is both a joyous and at times hard meditation on embodiment -- a journey to be reunited with the self in an attempt to heal pain and live more authentically.. Delporte's idyllic colored pencil drawings contrast with the near urgency that structures her confessional memoir. Each page is laden with revelation and enveloped in organic, natural shapes -- rocks, flowers, intertwined bodies, women's hair blowing in the wind -- captured with devotion. The vitality of these forms interspersed with Delporte's flowing handwriting hold space for her vivid and affecting observations.
About the Author
Born in Saint-Malo, France in 1983, Julie Delporte currently lives in Montreal. In 2011 - 2012 she was a fellow at The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. She has published a French children's book (Je suis un raton laveur, La courte échelle) about a little girl who turns into a raccoon and some short pieces at L'employé du Moi (Brussels). A collection of her journal comics will be published by Koyama Press in 2013. She also co-organized Montreal's annual "48 Heures" comics festival and newsprint anthology, and runs and co-hosts the comics-centric radio show "Dans ta Bulle", and publishes books and zines with the collective Colosse.
