Video: Boxers before and after the fight. Photo project by Nicolai Howalt
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All professions are important, all professions are needed. Someone will say that this phrase has become very hackneyed over the years since it was written. And a Danish artist Nicolai Howalt agree with this person. He talks about this in his new photo project with the title "141 boxers", in which the word "hackneyed" in relation to the profession is not at all a metaphor.
Photo artist Nikolai Khovalt loves to explore the problem of collisions in his work, and in all its manifestations. Let us recall, for example, his photo project "Car Crash Studies", in which cars after road accidents are shown in the smallest detail.
So in his new project, Hovalt does not part with the topic of collisions. But, this time, he considers it within the framework of professional sports. In "141 boxers" he displays one hundred and forty-one diptychs, each of which consists of photographs of one particular boxer before and after the fight in the ring. These are adult professional male boxers in different weight categories, both women and teenagers who are just starting their way in sports.
Nikolai Khovalt is interested in keeping track of the metamorphoses that occur with boxers in a few tens of minutes of a fight. Moreover, these changes do not always occur precisely because of the enemy's fists. Indeed, if you carefully examine the works from the series "141 boxers", you can see that the boxer's face changes, first of all, not because of the opponent's blows, but because of many other, often subjective reasons.
These are anger (sports and household), the release of adrenaline, testosterone into the body, excitement, fear, rage, triumph and many other psychological and physiological factors. In a matter of minutes of a fight in the boxing ring, its participants change as if, in fact, several years, or even decades, have passed. And there is hardly any other profession in the world that changes a person so much both externally and internally in such a short period of time.
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