DIVINE CRACKS

• Photographer
  ALIOCHA MERKER, Italy

"EQUAL ONLY IN THE BEGINNING
YOU FEIGN TO BE FORM AND STEAL FORMS
BREAKING POINT
BLINDING LIGHT THAT PREVENTS SIGHT
EVERYTHING FADES OUT
THEN THE LIGHT COMES BACK"
Pallade Atena,
by A.C. Bianchi

"Divine Cracks" represents the idealization of the feminine essence as the source of
creative rebirth, an ode to woman as
her whole: life generator/object of male desire/regent of the universal order. The strong
contrast of the print together with
the detail of the framing generate an abstraction of the human body, almost as if it were
the marble statue of a classical
divinity. The anatomic detail is subtly revealed within the black of the line confining
the erotic tension to an almost
subconscious level. The result forms a crack in the white idyll of the paper that shatters
all certainties of the male universe,
a slight discomfort, a faint embarassment... the photographic medium reminds us that
everything is real, attainable,
touchable, earthly yet uncanny. The single images don’t bear names, only numbers, making
all the subjects equivalent, at
the same time different from one another, unique.

• Awards
  2014, 1ST PLACE, FINE ART NUDES, MIFA, MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS