All possible forests #1. Framed
Maria Jose Arjona
Photography - 109.2 x 109.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43 x 43 x 0.1 inch
€11,342
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The Kiss - Self Portrait,
2012
Maria Jose Arjona
Photography : color edition, archival pigment print
97.8 x 136.5 x 0.3 cm 38.5 x 53.75 x 0.1 inch
€9,146
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Dimensions cm • inch
97.8 x 136.5 x 0.3 cm 38.5 x 53.75 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
Beige wood frame
Artwork dimensions including frame
111.8 x 149.9 x 5.1 cm 44 x 59 x 2 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: United States
This artwork presents a striking image of a person enveloped in a transparent, ethereal material, creating an evocative interplay between vulnerability and strength. The figure's pose exudes both grace and tension, suggesting a delicate struggle or transformative emergence. The wispy fabric envelops the subject, producing an angelic or chrysalis-like appearance, hinting at themes of metamorphosis or transcendence. The soft lighting accentuates the gentle contours of the body while diffusing the boundaries between the figure and the surrounding space. This choice of composition invites viewers to contemplate the ambiguity of presence and absence, material and immaterial. The artwork's minimalistic background contrasts with the complexity of its central figure, emphasizing themes of isolation and introspection. Overall, this piece is a compelling exploration of the human condition, capturing an exquisite moment of transition or self-discovery.
The Kiss is an exhibition mapping a system uniting two bodies. It is a gesture, magnified by the use of sound, emerging from the action of kissing and intensified by the working presence of the performer’s body. Throughout the space each element is weaved by simple associations between body (present and absent), sound, and various materials which are all used to reveal the nature of this binding gesture: kissing. The series does not display one privileged moment of the kiss – rather, it dislocates it through its many representations, underlining in this way an aural intensity which catalyses the possibility of an image of kissing within each spectator. The series could be also perceived as a microscope slide where some of the components of kissing are exalted and isolated in order to better understand them. It is not a rendering, it is not a choreographed sequence, it doesn’t function within linear time. But it proves the force contained in a simple gesture (kissing) giving it simultaneously a voice and an expanded corporeality.
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María José Arjona (b.1973 in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in her native Bogota.
The Kiss was a self-taken photograph and was part of her solo exhibition in New York at the Art Space Location One, in 2012. The Kiss maps a system uniting two bodies. It is a gesture magnified by the use of sound emerging from the action of kissing and intensified by the working presence of the performer's body.
“The Kiss" (is a long durational performance), a breathing system where the performer's body becomes the intersection enabling the entire organism to work, reveals the intricate rhythm between lungs, fluids, and muscles while kissing. The body is the kiss: the plane of action created by it. This intersecting plane finds its translation into sound via the repetitive action of inflating and deflating two huge latex balloons."
Maria José Arjona is a performance artist focused on affirming the body through long durational exercises addressing process, time, memory and power. Her performances have been exhibited in museums and galleries in South America, Europe, China, and the United States and have been reviewed by Art Nexus, Arte Al Dia, The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), Whitewall Magazine, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and many others. She participated as a re-performer at Marina Abramovic's retrospective at The Museum Of Modern Art in New York and started touring with her own work at The Madre Museum in Naples (Italy) as part of the program “Corpus, Arte In Azione". The itineration of this project includes locations in Bologna (Italy), Bergen and Oslo (Norway), New York (US), Vienna (Austria) and will end in 2010 in Colombia as part of the National Salon sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
Arjona will have a solo exhibition in 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota.
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