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Portrait (series)

“Por­trait” as its name sug­gests is a series of por­traits where the face dis­ap­pears under a garbage bag, hid­ing the fea­tures that make each per­son unique and recog­niz­able. The lines, the folds, the knot, and the char­ac­ter­ist­ic shape of the garbage bag, reveal anoth­er per­son­al­ity, also unique in the image of the waste pro­duced by a per­son.
2020-2021
“Garb-age” & “Anthro­po­lo­gic” solo shows. “Details” group show.
Black chalk, carbon and color pencil on paper. 80 x 60 cm

High­lighted by con­tem­por­ary and some­times graph­ic cloth­ing bring­ing eleg­ance to the sub­jects, these por­traits sym­bol­ize our con­sumer­ist soci­ety.

Although masked, these por­traits rep­res­ent a het­ero­gen­eous sample of the pop­u­la­tion of all sexes, ori­gins, ages and social back­grounds in order to high­light the glob­al nature of the prob­lem and to what extent we are all con­cerned. “The circle is com­plete” was the first draw­ing made around this theme, the start­ing point of this series of por­traits. After deal­ing with ele­ments such as water, then anim­als, it was import­ant for us to offer a vis­ion of the end of the food chain with­in our Garb-age series.