Video: Adult children or child adults? Photo project "Kidults" Marcin Cecko
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We recently wrote about the work of this distinctive Polish photographer, Marcin Cecko. In particular, about his "wet" works made by an ancient four-megapixel camera. But in the context of the last works of this author, one cannot fail to mention a series of adult-child characters, designed in a photo project called "Kidults". Trust me, it's worth it.
The parallels between adult and child life are drawn by many photographers and artists. Take Emilie Fjola Sandy's When I Grow Up. However, our today's hero Marcin Cecko went a little further than his colleague. His child-adult characters, created with a camera and special computer programs, resemble mentally unhealthy dwarfs who, for obvious reasons, dressed up in children's clothes and generally behave like children on a playground.
What Marcin Cecko wanted to show with his original project is a reason for controversy and discussion for more than one day. Someone thinks that the Polish photographer decided in this way to remind us that we all come from childhood, someone is sure that Marcin's characters who fell into childhood are a creative look at the phenomenon of indigo children. Others consider the series of pictures called "Kidults" as a philosophical project, which does not and will not have one clear and concrete explanation. Here is such a riddle from Marcin Cecko …
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