Questo non è un quadro. Living Paintings

Invece di rappresentare i suoi soggetti su tela, Alexa Meade, 24 anni, crea i suoi ritratti direttamente "addosso" ai soggetti che vuole riprodurre. Quando vengono fotografati, i modelli dipinti da Meade sembrano quadri bidimensionali.

"Per il progetto a cui sto lavorando, costruisco e poi fotografo installazioni effimere costituite dall'assemblaggio di oggetti di recupero sistemati attorno a un modello, che copro di strati di pittura acrilica. Dipingo la superficie dei corpi umani, degli oggetti materiali e delle architetture che circondano l'installazione, al fine di far "collassare" il soggetto, gli oggetti di contorno e lo sfondo su uno stesso piano continuo. Presento i miei ritratti effimeri, sia dal vivo, sia in foto"

Rather than creating representational paintings on a flat canvas, Alexa Meade creates her representational paintings directly on top of the physical subjects that she is referencing. When photographed, the representational painting and the subject being referenced appear to be one and the same as the 3D space of her painted scenes becomes optically compressed into a 2D plane.

Artist's Statement
Growing up in Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to work as a press intern on Capitol Hill throughout high school and college. Later, I worked as a press staffer on the Obama Campaign. Spending my formative years immersed in the world of politicians and PR led to a fascination with the possibilities of repackaging source texts and adding superficial modifications that would profoundly alter perception. What the audience ultimately unpackaged was a personal interpretation of an already mediated re-presentation.

In my current work, I construct and then photograph ephemeral installation sets that feature an assemblage of found objects and live models, which I have covered in layers of acrylic paint. I paint the surfaces of the human subjects, the material objects, and the architecture of the installations so as to collapse the subject, foreground, and background into one continuous plane. I present my ephemeral portrait/performances as both live, interactive installations as well as permanent photographic indices of these experiences.
By using paint as a mask that mimics the surface attributes of my source materials, I repurpose the common codes of painting and create a reciprocal self-referentiality in which the reference envelops its referent. The time-based portrait/performance installation is mediated through still photography, providing a record of the performative act in which the codes for representation/painting and indexicality/photography converge.
[www.alexameade.com]

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[SuperLuckydream]

So interesting and inspirational! Many thanks for uploading, dear Luisa.

[Mrl50]

@SuperLuckydream

Grazie a te, cara Tamara!

Un saluto, Luisa

[Leilazul02]

Strange way of expression!!!...Ephimeral, but interesting....

[Mrl50]

@Leilazul02

Grazie Leila♥

[swampiful]

Luisa , le tue sono sempre scelte non convenzionali. Bravissima!

[Mrl50]

@swampiful

....♥ L.

[andreapizzo1977]

Wow! Davvero fantastico :-)

Complimenti anche per la scelta musicale di sottofondo

[imesarek]

Does anyone knows what music is in video?

[bronzettosardonico]

@Mrl50 benissimo grazie,e tu?spero che arrivi un pò più di fresco.La sardegna è bella anche in inverno brrrr.......

[Mrl50]

@opensecret51

You are a treasure of kindness, dear Masha♥

Thanks!

L.

[Mrl50]

@bronzettosardonico

Carissima, che bello risentirti,

come va?

L.