"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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