Fabricated Truths

Fabricated Truths Artist's Statement My photographs are made in a ‘scientific’ setting. The objective observer is supposed to look closely. With these photographs, viewers willingly stare. Upon detecting a visual narrative, their minds set off on an interpretive errand. They engage in a series of measured calculations and draw social inferences to explain what they are seeing. There is something meaningful to be found. Through this exercise I give viewers permission to be voyeurs. I hope they find it pleasurable. Quietly, I am also pilfering something many men bring to these pictures. When they are so intently engaged in an abstract idea, few notice the absence of a prurient reward to their expectations. Even when photographs lie, they can still comment truthfully. Ricardo Barros April, 2010