Bodies are eternally adorned with a second skin, sometimes this is the clothing, sometimes this is the look that the photographer casts on it at the moment of the photographic act. Photographic objectivity remaining a myth, the photographer dresses the photographed with his gaze. It now directs the viewer towards something other than what is shown. A look outside the frame, a side story, the beginnings of something outside of time. This results in a double contemplation, the image becomes a “window on”.
The bodies’ stoicism lies in their disturbing strangeness. The transparency of their glances is just an expression a much important getaway and a mysterious impenetrability. Splitting and separating the spaces of representation which surround the photographic image, creating passages and back and forth with the aim of accepting the impossibility of a naked body, like a naked image, to appear by itself, not betraying itself. A completely clear and transparent image.
Through an elusive picture, we are being showed a scene: the body, as an actor of this scene, settles in the picture. More than a simple protagonist, it tends to become this scene, to embody the photographic image by its presence.
This presence is first of all a material one, hence the importance of gesture, posture and the body’s embedding into space.
The body is merely passing through the picture, which reminds us of a footprint.
A silent footprint.