This monumental installation print sets an elite conceptual standard, establishing itself as a premier example of contemporary fine art nude photography that reinterprets the unadorned human body as a pure, structural volume reacting to extreme physical stress. Developed as an interconnected sequence of eight self-taken frames for her landmark 2012 solo show at New York's Art Space Location One, the polyptych completely flattens and textures the active physical space. The horizontal and vertical layout tracks the intricate architecture of a long-durational breathing system, forcing a stark focus on the real, unvarnished strain of the back muscles, raw skin contours, and epidermal friction against synthetic plastic inflatable membranes.
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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Contemporary Fine Art Nude Photography - The Kiss Group of 8, 2012
The Kiss Group of 8, 2012
From the Series The Kiss
Archival pigment print
Dimensions:
Overall size: 42.5 H x 110.2 W in.
Individual size: 21.2 H x 27.5 W in.
Edition of 3 + 2AP
Color Photograph
Unframed
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.

















