CREATORS:
Performer: Danilo Bracchi
Installation Design: Raissa Araujo
HALLWAY PHOTO SHOOT is an exit from the bathroom to the bedroom and on the way, there is a corridor with a mirror at the end. Hey! I think I can do an ARTISTIC NUDE SELFIE. With a 10 second timer on my phone, I position myself for the CLOSE/VOGUE.
Hallway Photo shoot is to get naked without losing elegance and show everything, because otherwise it is not getting naked.
It can be a Peep Show, you can take a look and I’ll do the performance.
There can be more people, but you’ll have to strip down!
Different objects, textures and costumes appear, but the light is always the same, bathroom and bedroom light.
It is common to see the self made in everyday life, in an exhibitionist way in relation to what is consumed at the moment, but in this installation, we are interested in something more intimate, the naked body, photographed in an environment that is also intimate. Is there anything more private than a bedroom or a bathroom? But in the transition from one to the other, we risk doing the self in the corridor, sharing the idea that showing off naked can unpleasantly affect an individual’s personal integrity. Therefore, our starting points are striking questions: from private to public, what part of the body do you exhibit? how and why?
In Hallway photo shoot the naked body speaks (or part of it), valuing the motivations, questioning and revealing the imprisonments to which a body is submitted, the eventual superficiality, exhibitionism and/or narcissism, to then put in check the durability of the image as a phenomenon and its potential as a form of communication in a context of great technological advance.
In this way, the installation can be contemplative and interactive at the same time. The visitor can observe the selfies photographed and developed or see them on Instagram (from an iPad that will be available on site) being inside a mounted environment, which reproduces in a compact way the original place of its production. Or you can become a participant in the work, using your own mobile phone to photograph yourself, individually or with a collective, and download (or not) the image on Instagram with the hashtag #ensaiodecorredor. In both cases, we can say that this installation serves as a provocation to human thought and senses, suggesting expanded possibilities of seeing, positioning and/or organizing oneself in the world.
In this installation, the fixation of the self-image – the self – is produced with a mobile device (smartphones for example) with internet access, from a mirror, arranged inside a corridor with light and shadows, to offer the portraitist a freedom to explore angles that allow him to play with what he wants visible or not. The participant will be able to use the materials available in the bathroom organizer to compose their photo.
