The Actor and The Chair (Complete)

The theatrical character of portrait photography, which according to Michael Fried’s analysis of Western painting is dialectically opposed to an absorptive approach such as in documentary photography, is the starting point of this assignment. In its initial conception, the project explores how through the gesture and a single accessory element that the photographer places on the scene, the sitter models different characters. With the collaboration of the actor Jorge de Arcos, the use of a chair as an element that models and gives unity to the series, and the expressive resource of exaggeration, I constructed a series of portraits of the persona-actor, and that, as a kind of pantheon of caricatures, represent twelve different scenes of a comedy.