"To the dead who
are still alive and can be awakened."
The expositive proposal with the impermanent
masks is to expand the photograph and provide questions from the insertion of
the physical body in the work and not only by the visual contact with the
images. Generate a break with everyday life and stimulate the sensitive universe
of people. To do this, make use of other languages and other senses, besides
the vision. This is a photo installation with images printed on translucent
fabrics, profiled, waiting for the touch of the viewers. Using
death as a metaphor for the perceptual losses that the contemporary world
imposes on us and photography as a language of interlocution, i propose an
immersive experience that begins with the capture of images, when volunteers lie
in a pool of water and dry ice; which metaphorically sets up a perceptive re
start – touch compromised by temperature, water-blocked hearing, sight
interrupted by closed eyes, palate and smell supplanted by the need to breathe
- and by the proposal of expository action, when space is reconfigured into a
new immersion. The experimentation, which starts with the construction of
mortuary masks of living people, is effective in placing the viewer in contact
with the representation of death and makes a counterpoint to the role of
photography and its false notion of objectivity. The presentiment of life in
this work is given by the sensorial experience with photography in an expanded
form, both in its capture process and in the expository actions. Today I count with 300 files or 300 people have had the immersive experience and I have 100 photographs printed on translucent voile fabric of 100x150cm each, for the installation of the photo installation. The assembly is very flexible and adapted to the intended spaces. For an area of 5x5m it is possible to profile 27 images on 9 clotheslines with 3 images each, 50cm apart between the clotheslines. The important thing is that people go through the images. I have already worked this installation photo with 100 photographs.
