« First Stone (with The Boy) », Self-portrait. .
First Stone
As an institution, the church has used its teachings throughout history to oppress, discriminate and persecute everybody who differed from its authority and had a different culture, opinion, sexuality or lifestyle than the one commonly accepted. This satirical photograph visually plays with the utterance of Jesus in John 8:7, viz. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”.
SELF-REFLECTIONS is a series of satirical and surreal self-portraits, presenting a repertoire of four personalities that live inside the same person. Photographed as archetypes and fairy tale characters, they are named: The Villain, The Joker, The Prince and The Boy.
The images, meticulously constructed like paintings with in-depth work on their characterisation, colour and style, form allegorical tableaux whose narratives intertwine artistic, cinematic and philosophical references. They evoke the construction of identity, childhood, death, freedom, madness… sometimes to comedic effect.
Irony and subversion invite the viewer to a striking world filled with a strange chromatic unreality, a theatre of the absurd where a single actor plays all the roles.
— Présences Photographie, Montélimar (France), 2022.
Type
Photography
Genre
Self-portrait
Fine-art
Series
Self-Reflections
Artists
Nuno Roque
Gaudi Kaiser
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Type
Photography
Genre
Self-portrait
Fine-art
Series
Self-Reflections
Artists
Nuno Roque
Gaudi Kaiser
Share
Type
Photography
Genre
Self-portrait
Fine-art
Artists
Nuno Roque
Gaudi Kaiser
Series
Self-Reflections
Share
« First Stone (with The Boy) », Self-portrait.