Monday, January 15, 2018

Provoke


"For me cities are enormous bodies of people's desires."

-Daido Moriyama

Provoke is a photographic interpretation of the fragmentary nature of modern reality and a commentary on our obsession with the body, sex and materiality in general.

I chose to use high contrast, gritty and out of focus black and white photographs in order to convey the chaos of everyday existence and create an imaginal domain which gravitates between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real. The combination of photographs with other images (such as illustrations of butterflies, snakes and bones) was an attempt to create visual allegories and explore archetypal themes such as sin, redemption, death and rebirth.

The work ultimately serves as a metaphor for dark emotions and psychological states (isolation, fear, inner turmoil, subconscious desire etc). My harsh, crude depictions of the human body and the urban environment occupy an uncertain and uncomfortable territory that lingers between sensual pleasure and mental nightmare.

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