This visually striking masterwork of contemporary figurative photography titled All the others in me (New York) (2013) embodies the pinnacle of María José Arjona’s performance research. The black and white medium shot isolates her body transforming into an organic sculptural form, completely enveloped and restricted by a continuous sheath of dark elastic textile. By referencing a subverted striptease that acts as an architecture of concealment, Arjona deconstructs institutionalized femininity and the complex desires of the modern audience.
The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs, and transpires ... For the 4th Marrakech Biennale, Arjona creates a very particular piece in her body of work as it is the first to directly allude to gender policies. Simulating a striptease in which she takes off clothes but does not undress, the artist examines the connotation of "femininity" and the wishes and desires of the public. The revival of the figurative photography shows an androgynous body that fuses the genres and proposes a fluid body territory.
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