Story About Friends

As an artist, I work with the projection of my own figure to create pictures that investigate issues of the body, identity and domination. My research is focused in the analysis of familiar media images that promote the phenomenon where society generates superficial judgments about "the other". With my self-portraits, I am not only referring to my own body, am also talking about the rest of the bodies to question how society molds its beliefs and ideas about its own body based on exterior experiences. Story About Friends (2018) is a sequel to my series Story About Gnomes (2009), where I made self-portraits and portraits of my niece when she was 3 years old. For Story About Friends I worked with my niece 8 years later at a moment where she reached my own height. We began to make pictures in which both of us appeared inside the frame and where both decided the action and the place where the narrative developed. I was interested in documenting through photography the growth of her body at an age where mine stopped growing. These two friends create a world inside a frame where they generate a contrast, nevertheless also relate between childhoods and adulthoods identity and transformation. From a point of view where both bodies look similar at first glance, nevertheless in reality, they are pretty different. By projecting my own image, a body type considered outside the average, I hope to question not only what is considered normal but also the prevalent visual imagery that is defining the way in which we are representing the body today.