EVOLUTION

A FEW WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR ABOUT HIS WORK "EVOLUTION" This series of portraits is based on extremes of nudity and precariousness. Through my work, despite the apparent literalism of image, of camera - and, above all, of the viewer’s gaze - I endeavor to reveal what is behind form, what transcends the time of exposure and the white edge that defines the limits of a Polaroid. The word Polaroid is composed of the term polarity and the Greek root "eidos", which means form, aspect. Light is polarized, taking us beyond darkness, the “temporary blindness”, of a light-sensitive support. This same darkness acts, in the portrait, as a mirror reflecting what we do not want to show, or what we are simply unable to see. PROJECT FOUNDATION: Throughout the history of art, the portrait has often been analyzed as a reflection of a determined socio-cultural status. From the court portraiture of the Renaissance to the self- portrait of one of the most famous photographers of the 19th century, Félix Nadar, to the bourgeois face on a daguerreotype, this theme has been used as a barometer to determine standards of good taste and fashion (with the accompanying capacity to declare and preserve political, economic or intellectual power). However, the evolution of portraits is not limited to these cultural references. I am interested in restoring and reaffirming the portrait as a vehicle of existential reflection, a dimension both deeper and more expansive than the historical, social, and ethnic contexts that govern and limit human life. This appears to me to be of crucial importance today, when the notion of “being” has yielded its place to “appearing”, when faces obsessively strive to deny the passage of time and its counterpart, memory. TECHNICAL DATA SHEET: Series of portraits made it in Polaroid format / film 600.