O.
In O., acclaimed Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez lays bare his choreographed and embodied approach to photography through a series that explores the free fall of life, the construction of identity, and its connections to spiritual destiny. Influenced by French mystical thinker Simone Weil, Rodriguez draws a line between her minimalist portraits and Weil’s life’s work, searching for purity and the relationship between suffering and transcendence. The book’s title the letter O speaks to this transcendence between a noise, a gasp, an exhalation, a cycle, all sounds, an open symbol, a zero, a reset.
Using a cast of different bodies, ages, backgrounds, and identities, Rodriguez sculpts a series of nudes that oscillate between power and loss of control. Rodriguez challenges his subjects to let go: bodies contort and collapse as they return to balance, rise to grace, and reach purity. How much control do we have over the direction we head? How soft is the landing?
Rodriguez frames her striking nudes in dialogue with images of tasseography—the practice of divination through the reading of a coffee cup that runs through Rodriguez’s Dominican heritage—to spiritually engage with the strength and beauty of those who appear and disappear before her camera. O. evokes the volatility of our current moment, our states of self-preservation, and the future that is yet to come.
In O., acclaimed Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez lays bare his choreographed and embodied approach to photography through a series that explores the free fall of life, the construction of identity, and its connections to spiritual destiny. Influenced by French mystical thinker Simone Weil, Rodriguez draws a line between her minimalist portraits and Weil’s life’s work, searching for purity and the relationship between suffering and transcendence. The book’s title the letter O speaks to this transcendence between a noise, a gasp, an exhalation, a cycle, all sounds, an open symbol, a zero, a reset.
Using a cast of different bodies, ages, backgrounds, and identities, Rodriguez sculpts a series of nudes that oscillate between power and loss of control. Rodriguez challenges his subjects to let go: bodies contort and collapse as they return to balance, rise to grace, and reach purity. How much control do we have over the direction we head? How soft is the landing?
Rodriguez frames her striking nudes in dialogue with images of tasseography—the practice of divination through the reading of a coffee cup that runs through Rodriguez’s Dominican heritage—to spiritually engage with the strength and beauty of those who appear and disappear before her camera. O. evokes the volatility of our current moment, our states of self-preservation, and the future that is yet to come.
63.00 EUR
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O.
63.00 EUR
In O., acclaimed Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez lays bare his choreographed and embodied approach to photography through a series that explores the free fall of life, the construction of identity, and its connections to spiritual destiny. Influenced by French mystical thinker Simone Weil, Rodriguez draws a line between her minimalist portraits and Weil’s life’s work, searching for purity and the relationship between suffering and transcendence. The book’s title the letter O speaks to this transcendence between a noise, a gasp, an exhalation, a cycle, all sounds, an open symbol, a zero, a reset.
Using a cast of different bodies, ages, backgrounds, and identities, Rodriguez sculpts a series of nudes that oscillate between power and loss of control. Rodriguez challenges his subjects to let go: bodies contort and collapse as they return to balance, rise to grace, and reach purity. How much control do we have over the direction we head? How soft is the landing?
Rodriguez frames her striking nudes in dialogue with images of tasseography—the practice of divination through the reading of a coffee cup that runs through Rodriguez’s Dominican heritage—to spiritually engage with the strength and beauty of those who appear and disappear before her camera. O. evokes the volatility of our current moment, our states of self-preservation, and the future that is yet to come.
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