Bichard has worked for the past 3 decades as an artist, filmmaker and photographer. Eternally restless and with a passion for creating and working across a range of artistic contexts, they see media as a fluid palette that allows for new ways of storytelling. Influences range from Baroque portraiture to video game tropes and environments to early Russian film and extreme contemporary dance.
A gender queer, feminist ally who works at questioning societal and personal constructs, unpicking patriarchal norms and exploring at the edges of culture: redefining narrative contexts and gender gradients in mass media.
They explore the margins: the people and places that cross boundaries, that live beyond the edges of ‘normality’, the fluid area between states of uncertainty: gender, sanity, physicality. Over the years, these musings have drifted into discrete themes: violence as narrative, self-identification, the construction of exquisite alter egos, and the fragmentation of narrative.
Bichard is currently living and working in Stockholm Sweden. They have work in numerous public and private art collections internationally including MOMA New York, V&A and Tate in London and CAM in Tampa…
Bichard collaborates with his wife the jazz singer and performer Fräulein Frauke. The duo have built a reputation for extraordinary photographic artworks and extravagant Burlesque events through their brand ‘Bichard Studios’. For over a decade, they have run Sweden’s top burlesque and Cabaret club, the internationally renowned ‘Fräulein Frauke Presents‘ and the International Stockholm Burlesque Festival.
Previous collaborations include a series of painted Baroque inspired nudes in collaboration with the Bulgarian/Swedish artist Iva Troj.
Currently working on a series of film projects: Anise Underground, a magic realist queer thriller, Hidden Identities, a fragmented narrative on displacement and the upcoming film Main Event as director of photography for director Arantxa Hurtado.
Image by Pia Eklund and Julia Holmgren