Photographic Series

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Unbodied or The place where I don’t want to be

What motivates the movement?

In this series of photographs I studied sources of the movement and how the individual has power (or not) over her/his own moving body. The inspiration for this work comes from a personal frustration regarding the authenticity of movements.

Living in a place where efficiency comes first, and the creative process is frequently rushed to guarantee that the project is concluded quickly and on time, I constantly question how authentic our work is.
When I apply this analysis to the moving body, my first thoughts speak to the motivation behind the movements. How much the environment influences the body? An individual will very easily (and unconsciously) yield under the demands of the environment. Within time, the ambient starts to dictate the movements. The individual loses identity. And the movement is not an internal force anymore, but rather and internal response to the an external force. The source changes from inside to outside. As a consequence, authenticity is many times replaced by automaticity.
This series does not intent to illustrate how the environment dictates the movement, but rather give a sense of feel on how this relationship evolves.
In order to achieve that, I first tried to dissociate the body from the environment, using very primitive analogies.
In the nowhere, the performer was free. In the real environment, the performer was subject to the external forces. Gradually, the real environment invades the dreamy refuge of the performer, and the personal creative force is expunged. We do not see the performer’s head anymore. And the gradation of colors bring us from vividness to black and white.
Throughout the series, the dancer’s clothes blend with the environment. Her imaginary dreamy floor burns for her, but also cools down later on. She loses internal force to the ambient as she loses colors to the external forces. But ultimately, we all knew this would happen, because the first picture of the series is not about the dancer. It is about the environment.

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