This groundbreaking example of modern avant-garde photography stands as a monumental visual testament to María José Arjona’s historical body art practice. Conceived as a self-taken photograph during her critically acclaimed solo exhibition at New York's Location One, the print documents a grueling long-durational performance investigating human anatomy. By positioning her unclothed body as the structural intersection of an artificial breathing circuit connecting two massive transparent spheres, Arjona charts the visceral, hidden rhythm of lungs, muscles, and organic fluids.
The Kiss was a self-taken photograph and was part of her solo exhibition in New York at the Art Space Location One, in 2012. The Kiss maps a system uniting two bodies. It is a gesture magnified by the use of sound emerging from the action of kissing and intensified by the working presence of the performer’s body. “The Kiss” (is a long durational performance), Portrait photography, a breathing system where the performer’s body becomes the intersection enabling the entire organism to work, reveals the intricate rhythm between lungs, fluids, and muscles while kissing.
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Avant-Garde Photography - The Kiss I 2012. By María José Arjona
The Kiss I, 2012
From the Series The Kiss
Archival pigment print
Dimensions: 39.3 H x 55.1 in.
Edition of 3 + 2AP
Color Photograph
María José Arjona, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia, 1973, lives and works in Miami. She received her master's degree in visual arts from the Academia Superior de Arte in Bogota. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in New York. Her most recent performance exhibitions have been at the South Florida Art Center in Miami, the Miami Light Project, the Ballroom Marfa in Texas and the Damien-B Contemporary Art Center in Miami. She has also exhibited video performances at the Galleri Se in Bergen (Norway) and at the Museo de Barrio in New York.
