Transformation is never easy, but almost always necessary, and in the case of Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, a cause for undaunting exploration. Their most recent collaboration, aptly titled “Post/Relationship/X” explores the intimate moments within a relationship between an opposite-oriented transgender couple, during which time Ernst transitioned from female to male and Drucker transitioned from male to female. The photographs are less diary oriented and more exploratory of the impulse to create a fragmented compendium of dual lives lived on their own terms. Terming the work a “life collaboration,” Drucker and Ernst postulate so much more than the dissolution of a relationship, but the beginning of a new future as working artists. 

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S LA CIENEGA BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
Post/Relationship/X on view until Nov. 1, 2014