initial idea

Bipolar originally was conceived as a cathartic exercis about my status as one of the many people living with bipolar mood disorder.

Eventually the project took its own course and change the focus to rhe experimentation between two poles: the analogical and digital forms of captre of the photographic image as my personal reaction to the omnipresence of digital capture as well as a personal position about the importance of recover history. All inside the premise of searching for my own version of the surrealist concept of l'inform and produce a corpus of images in which the form and background don't have clear or definitive boundaries.

description

This project is one approach, among an infinity of possibilities, to the construction of images considered it from the photographic act.

It is an exploratory exercise about my ability to combine images produced and captured by digital and analog media framed by personal thoughts about my role as a man, especially in regard to the social construction of gender. A mapping of how I perceives the role of be a male through the register of the skin of my brother and mine.

Following some of the early surrealists artists contextualized within my own experience and concerns, especially the fuzzy concept of l'inform raised by George Bataille.

Within these broad parameters I have carried out theoretical and visual searches that have been the floor to find answers through trial and error, found and lost again, and learn in the process of doing, thinking , redo and rethink.

In particular I found enriching the Joan Foncuberta's reflections about the role of photography in a postmodern society inundated with images, plus Rosalind Krauss has become a mainstay for my way of thinking about building images and vital to understanding the work of many artists before me.

accomplishments

Being able to go beyond my limits, dissociate purely mimetic intentions and be able to expand my horizons as a creator of images is the main achievement of this project. Added with the knowledge gained by consulting bibliographies, and authors who have thought and written about the genesis of the photographic image.

Thanks to the teachings of my teachers especially Omaira Abadía and Zenaida Osorio my boundaries in terms of the image have expanded and I've discovered an intense passion for the experimentation.

As an exercise in self-portraits I've learned a lot of myself and the social labels that have been applied to me or that I applied to others.

And as the culmination of all this I've managed to implement different areas of my career: the photographer, editorial, web design, etc.. Amalgamated different facets about a product which is this corpus of images.