Imitations revels identity.
Female Art is a project born during the lockdown of 2020 when the only place I could go to was my living room.
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, did some research about the painting… and after a few hours, I found myself making self-portraits of these female bodies on painting.
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
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, emotions.
It is very subjective.
Third Lockdown
Let’s do more self-portraits.
Most of the stories behind these painting are related to sexuality showing the female body as an object not as a person. Nietzche's use to say in his Birth of tragedy that the body has become more important than the face.
The female body uses 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 so many ways. I agree with Plato when he describes Venus as a "divine love", that if you contemplate her you not only see the physical beauty you will also see the spiritual beauty.
I wanted to recreate that spiritual beauty.
