The artist projected her pictures of the Canyon on naked, painted-in-white, bodies of models. (...) Landscapes’ and human bodies’ lines and textures merge to create a new environment at the crossroad between the organic and the mineral. Laying in the original fetal position, humans are central to the visual scene. Models’ postures invite us to recall of the uterus and the development of babies in their mother’s belly, giving this artificial setting a surprising feeling of familiarity. 

 

As an orchestra conductor, Irina provided clear guidelines to the models as to generate the postures to reach during the photo and video sessions. After one minute, the models were able to explore their own expression and took an active role into the project. Bodies searched their places, testing limits and barriers and gradually gaining consciousness of the environment around them. Fetal positions evolve towards more open postures, from discomfort to comfort, from tension to liberation, expressing anxiety as a result of fear to the unknown. 

 

"Photos and videos reside behind the wall - we don’t see them overtly because they talk about a hidden truth. This is also an answer to the proliferation and dictatorship of images today, a phenomenon that fosters the death of our intimacy but also of our potential for introspection. Here the images are available only to the ones that are really willing to look at them, therefore creating an intimate relationship between the subject of the image, its author and the viewer ”.

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Extracts from Almudena Blanco Garcia's text visible here: 

https://www.esraro.com/irinajibert

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