Female art
Imitations reveal identity.
It's a project born during the 2020 lockdown, when my living room was the only place I could go.
My curiosity led me to look beyond the image, to contemplate and feel what the model of each painting I selected was thinking or 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 creating self-portraits of the female bodies in the 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. Nietzsche once said in his "Birth of Tragedy" that the body has become more important than the face.
The female body was once compared to Venus, as her physical beauty made her a goddess. Our female body is a representation of Venus in different ways; we express 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 also 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
