Female art
Imitations reveal identity.
Its a project born during the lockdown of 2020 when my living room was the only place I could go to.
My curiosity took me to see beyond the image, to contemplate and to feel what the model of each painting I selected was thinking or even feeling.
It all began with a picture on my TV…
"El Descanso" by Ernest Ange Duez.
I loved the colours, pose and composition. I wanted to recreate it.
I took my camera and researched the painting… and after a few hours, I found myself making self-portraits of these female bodies on painting.
Third Lockdown
Let’s do more self-portraits.
Most of the stories behind these paintings are related to sexuality, showing the female body as an object, not as a person. Nietzche used to say in his Birth of Tragedy that the body has become more important than the face.
The female body used to be compared with Venus as her physical beauty makes her a goddess. Our female body is Venus in different ways; we give love in many ways. I agree with Plato when he describes Venus as a "divine love"; if you contemplate her, you will not only see physical beauty, but you will also see spiritual beauty.
I wanted to recreate that spiritual beauty.
When I portray myself…
I want the photo to be artistic, pictorial, rather than sensual nude.
I see the nude in photography as a way to communicate sensations, feelings, and emotions.
It is very subjective.
What I love about your photographs apart from how well taken they are, is your curiosity to imitate painting, as well as your poses. What I mean is that you're very talented at posing, like you really convey that you're a character in a painting.
It is not just about putting yourself in the same position as the subject in the painting, but capturing the emotion or tension of the moment, and it seems to me that you do it magnificently.
Script Editor, Lorena González Di Totto
