Interiors

2022

My photographic work investigates the common imaginaries that insinuate the role of the body in society. This revision of popular images has encouraged me to shift the direction of the camera to myself and invert earlier ideas of studying the body by using self-portraiture. I am driven to question the depiction of my own figure, a body that has been used and abused to represent different kind of fantasy characters in folktales, literature, fables, paintings, illustrations, and films.

In the series "Interiors" I play the protagonist instead of being the dream of another character or the viewer. The scenes take place in the domestic space, where the main character performs household activities. However, they suggest an inner state of the body beyond the surface.

By reusing some visual strategies from the cinematic fantasy genre including locations, color lights and fog (elements also associated to religious imagery) I want to dismantle it through humor and speculate about on my own dreams.

Photo assistants: Kristen Holness and Gabriel Bit-Babik

Interiors was made possible thanks to the support of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.