05 April 2010

Body as a platform

In the following works, I built sets that use my body as a platform. I position myself in a space and create a set that may resemble a painting. My works are usually made so that there perspective rules are valid from a specific view point in space. Away from this point, the image is deformed. For example, "Self Portrait in a Pool" was done as a trompe l'oeil, another example is seen in the photograph series "red" where the bed was constructed in such a way that the legs disappear when looked from a specific angle.

The main focus of my work is on the disappearance of the third dimension after a photograph is taken. I attempt to build sets that take into account this disappearance, not in order to give back the illusion of the third dimension, but to manipulate it, transform or deliberately annihilate it.

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