Hello, Hive!
Today I want to tell you about one of my photography aesthetic trends. I am very happy to have found photography communities. I would appreciate it if you could let me know about other communities in the comments. Now I leave you with these notes:
The body as discourse, as an external translation of who we are, is one of my aesthetic obsessions in the photographic field. There is nothing more important in the history of humanity than the human being himself.
Each body is unique, unrepeatable genetic. History is built on the human body, art, war, peace, desire, evil, vices are the thematic axis of the visual poetry that I always do as a photographer. I choose a body or sometimes it is the body that chooses me. We talk about what it is to be a body, about what it is worth to be a body, about how much I prefer to make portraits of human bodies and not of other bodies.
And then comes the moment of capturing that body forever. The instant of the flash, precise, exact on the body. And from that moment on, the body of the other is mine.
I usually accompany my photos with texts that I construct later, when the image has already become part of the body of my unconscious. When my body is already the sum of many bodies.
The following text was written to present the catalog that accompanies my exhibition: WORDS ON THE BODY. This creative process was carried out during the end of 2020, when we were still living locked up at home due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
That is, the selected photos, the bodies had already added to their life experience, to their biography, to their medical record, the passage of one of the deadliest epidemics in the history of mankind. It is a fact that reinforces the interest in these bodies as survivors. And there is also my body, accomplice of the act of surviving.
(The photos were taken with my NIKON camera, the only object that has become an inseparable part of my body).
WORDS ABOUT THE BODY.
The body and time, the marks, the wrinkles, the correction of the body,
the negation of the body, the body that is body and also non-body.
The body of memory, affected, perforated, made up, naked, covered.
The body on another body, the body dreaming of being another body.
Hence, the spaces selected are sites of creation: Studio, studio, workshop, factory, sown fields, etc.
Hence the models are bodies close to my body, bodies desired by my body. Loved bodies, hated bodies.
My body to portray the body of others on the body of art and the market.
Nothing in the world is more original than a body.
Nothing in the world can reach the glory of a body coming to life and then becoming a body alone, abandoned by the spirit.
The body as poem where a body penetrates another body and perhaps one of the two bodies produces another body. Or ceases to be a body.
The body as the body of a descriptive text about portraits of bodies.
