Video: Vandalism or art: burning from a photograph as interpreted by a Brazilian artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Brazilian photographer and artist Lucas Simões practices a wide variety of image manipulations in his work. Drawing on all his imagination and ingenuity, Simoens creates interesting collages, working in a special way with the finished photograph. Recently, the photographer has taken up burning from photography.
True, this method can hardly be called constructive. What the photographer does with an already finished photograph may seem like at least an empty undertaking, or maybe even an act of vandalism. The photographer, however, puts a special sacred meaning into this action, doing with the character captured in the picture what human memory will inevitably do to him. “Absence” - this is how the photographer called this series. Acid-burned faces, where the devil can no longer be disassembled, and facial expressions cannot be restored. Contemplation of photographs leaves thoughts of emptiness, frailty and inconsistency of human memory.
Simoens's previous project, Desretratos, was, however, more optimistic. The photographer invited his friends to participate in an unusual photoset: he decided to capture the emotions of his friends at the moment when they share their secrets with him. Each model had to choose a music track that would sound in the photographer's headphones at the time of shooting (that is, the secret remained a secret every time), and also name the color that would become the main color in the future photographic portrait. Subsequently, the photographer made interesting collages from the resulting photographs.
Another photographer who changes his models beyond recognition is Joseph Parra. Using various objects, like small pebbles, sand or needles, the artist invades the artistic space of photography, producing original and ambiguous manipulations. Some of Parra's works are reminiscent of origami, others are collages, others are curly napkins made of paper, and others even look as if they were mercilessly battered by time.
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