Lot 41

Evergon creates deeply personal, unapologetically homoerotic, and imaginatively sensual photographic and lens-based works. Throughout his career, he has explored sexuality, gender, and identity, often centering queer experience while challenging homophobia, ageism, ableism, and fatphobia through both his artistic practice and social activism.

Central to Evergon’s work is the interplay between reality and fiction. He describes many of his projects as “docu-fictions,” leaving space for imagination and interpretation, and inviting viewers to wander beyond the boundaries of the visible world. Working under a number of alter egos—including Celluloso Evergonni, Eve R. Gonzales, Egon Brut, and Big Hellion—he has used fictional personas to explore alternative perspectives, question authorship, and challenge photography’s traditional association with truth and documentation.

A pioneering figure in experimental photography and lens-based media, Evergon has consistently embraced both historical and emerging technologies. His practice spans non-silver processes, Xerox transfers, Polaroid instant imaging, silver gelatin printing, holography, digital imaging, video, and, most recently, AI-generated imagery. Often working at a monumental scale, he creates immersive works that resist easy consumption and confront viewers with images that challenge conventions, expectations, and assumptions about representation itself.

According to the artist, if you are conservative, the work is considered pornography. And if you are liberal, the work is considered eroticism!