honorable mention
Oriana Majoli italyPhoto © Oriana Majoli
title
TESTAE
TESTAE is a collection of very special, human vases. The body becomes a vase and is nude, in ceramic, free of disturbing elements, shaped by light like clay, by means of the chiaroscuro plastic typical of the soft analogue black and white of a Polaroid, and reveals itself between penumbra and light, resting on a pedestal in front of a 19th century tapestry, like a valuable furnishing accessory. The "vase" is a container of lifeblood for the individual herbal, floral and arboreal essences that fill it, adorn it, complete it and communicate it. Only two specimens of each pose were produced, worked afterwards with the application of the natural essences that were dried and treated beforehand, in order to manage their shapes, textures and colour shades individually. TESTAE is a mutable human herbarium.
She soon devoted herself to drawing and painting, up to her university days with a particular interest in portraiture and nude, which represent a constant in her photographic research.
Supports both digital and analogue photography, setting up a studio for personal installation and development.
After several shorts stories in digital, it ends in 2017, three years after the first shot, the project LVMEN OBSCVRA, followed by De Profundis(2019),
the project instant polaroid PERSONA(2019)
the work entitled NIHIL(2019) and her last work TESTAE(2020).
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entry description
"Testae" is the plural of the term which in Latin means vase, amphora.TESTAE is a collection of very special, human vases. The body becomes a vase and is nude, in ceramic, free of disturbing elements, shaped by light like clay, by means of the chiaroscuro plastic typical of the soft analogue black and white of a Polaroid, and reveals itself between penumbra and light, resting on a pedestal in front of a 19th century tapestry, like a valuable furnishing accessory. The "vase" is a container of lifeblood for the individual herbal, floral and arboreal essences that fill it, adorn it, complete it and communicate it. Only two specimens of each pose were produced, worked afterwards with the application of the natural essences that were dried and treated beforehand, in order to manage their shapes, textures and colour shades individually. TESTAE is a mutable human herbarium.
about the photographer
Oriana Majoli was born in 1979 in southern Italy, in the province of Salerno.She soon devoted herself to drawing and painting, up to her university days with a particular interest in portraiture and nude, which represent a constant in her photographic research.
Supports both digital and analogue photography, setting up a studio for personal installation and development.
After several shorts stories in digital, it ends in 2017, three years after the first shot, the project LVMEN OBSCVRA, followed by De Profundis(2019),
the project instant polaroid PERSONA(2019)
the work entitled NIHIL(2019) and her last work TESTAE(2020).
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