« The Last Minute Of Childhood (with The Boy) », Self-portrait. .
The Last Minute Of Childhood
« The Last Minute of Childhood » is a self-portrait about the loss of innocence. The Boy appears distracted and unaware of the danger he faces as he is about to experience a traumatic event only a moment away from occurring. Exposing yourself to the dangerous world (represented by the cactus) and the pain that may come with it is an intrinsic part of becoming an adult.
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
« The Last Minute Of Childhood (with The Boy) », Self-portrait.