Régis Gonçalves /Art Exhibition- The Fly and the Man with Golden Possessions - Amsterdam 2024

In Part One, The Fly and the Man with Golden Possessions, the focus will be on showing the male enslaved breeder from his owner's point of view. In this case, he is reduced to a fetishized image of a faceless man, beast like, with golden balls and golden member, to be treated as a beast and mating like one. As for the fly, an insect that usually feeds on animal blood, here it represents the landowner who, with clear intent, drained the man with the golden possessions. A male slave breeder had to have certain exceptional characteristics. It was desired that he should be tall, be physically well-built, with good teeth, possessed of thin shins and a large and long member. These qualities were believed to provide heathy and strong children; children that were meant to replace the elderly in the fields.
A male slave breeder had to have certain exceptional characteristics. It was desired that he should be tall, be physically well-built, with good teeth, possessed of thin shins and a large and long member. These qualities were believed to provide heathy and strong children; children that were meant to replace the elderly in the fields. A breeder would not do field work; instead his main job was to make sure that the majority of the enslaved females were pregnant.