Video: A Thousand and One Dreams by Yasmina Alaui and Marco Guerra
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Yasmina Alaoui and Marco Guerra love to tease and seduce their viewers. In their series of photographs “One Thousand And One Dreams”, taken in full growth, bodies frozen like statues seem to have frozen in time, covered from head to toe with intricate henna patterns. Fascinated by the realism and sculptural quality of every human form, the viewer begins to slowly plunge into a world of illusion …
The patterns on the photographed bodies can be mistaken for body art, but they are not in the literal sense of the word. Each work begins with nude black and white photographs by Marco Guerra. Yasmina Alawi's drawings are applied with special ink later, already on the finished photographs.
Moroccan Yasmina Alawi studied the art of sculpture in Paris. Its intricate designs are influenced by illustrations from the Qur'an and Islamic architecture. Chilean Marco Guerra is a renowned fashion photographer based in New York who draws inspiration from the poetry of Pablo Neruda. The unique collaboration has led to the fusion of these two contrasting styles, to the unification of mystical beauty and rich cultural heritage. In their works, Marco and Yasmina blur the boundaries between the traditions of the East and West, exploring the beauty of the naked body in unconventionally charming ways.
Yasmina Alaui and Marco Guerra are a couple not only in the creative process, but also in life. According to the authors themselves, the inspiration for them was "the legendary collection of fairy tales from the Middle East, that is, the well-known" One Thousand and One Nights ", as well as the magical surrealism of South American literature."
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