This monumental artwork sets an elite conceptual standard, establishing itself as a premier example of fine art performance photography that captures the visceral intersection of contemporary dance, live physical action, and identity dissolution. Developed in 2017 as a core visual pillar of her celebrated project The frequencies that make me, documents a fleeting, in-between space where the human form is actively deconstructed. The rear framing isolates a figure in full transition, masterfully mixed with heavy drapery and rough texturized animal furs from which a fluid cascade of long white horsehair emerges. Wrapped in a dramatic, heavy chiaroscuro that completely eliminates architectural distractions, the unique composition subverts passive imagery to generate a horizontal relationship between humans and non-humans.
"The frequencies that make me" is a project that aims to find points of contact between dance and performance to generate a space in between, where the body plays with time, explores the sound as a surface of possible becoming, and mixes with matter to germinate bodies in full transition in a figurative photography. It is not about building a new body, but rather generating fleeting and less definable bodies to reclaim a world of horizontal relationships between humans and non-humans.
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Fine Art Performance Photography - The frequencies I am made of #4, 2017
The frequencies I am made of #4, 2017
From the Series The frequencies that make me
Gicleé print on cotton rag
Dimensions: 68.8 H x 43.3 W in.
Edition 4/5 + 1AP
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.
