Naomi
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62813
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Work by Marisa Portolese
Alana
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62817
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Margaret
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62824
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Irene
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62834
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Geneviève
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62833
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Maggie
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62829
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Geneviève
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62826
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Kate
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62823
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Zoe
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62808
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marzena
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62809
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Mackenzie
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62812
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Naomi
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62813
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Ornella / Matthew
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62814
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Kate
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62815
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Nadia
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62821
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Suzy
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62835
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marie-Christine
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62832
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Althea
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62816
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marisa
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62819
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sirens
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62825
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marielle
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62820
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Diane
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62807
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Maryse
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62818
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marie-Claude
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62822
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: faces, Original CCCA
Amélie
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62810
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sonya
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62806
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Penny
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62830
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Anna / Zoe
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62828
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: 2002-montreal, Original CCCA
Anna
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62827
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Jennifer
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62831
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Nadia
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62811
Description: In the year 2002, I produced a body of work entitled Belle de Jour, which is a survey of 30 large-scale colour photographs depicting women in various states of undress, masquerading different roles. The portraits are carefully orchestrated to present the viewer a world of girls who tease the line of the voyeur. The actors have been choreographed to come forth with a remarkable sense of their own sexual persona through lascivious, subversive gestures and defiant expressions. These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. Women existing in a state of psychological and physical individuality are presented to invite the viewer to contemplate and explore the underlying tensions between vulnerability and composure, awkwardness and grace, intimacy and detachment, and naturalness and artifice.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: colour print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Lover
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62859
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Prom Queen
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62878
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Blue Lady
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62889
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Book Cover
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62872
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Longing
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62888
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pink Nipple
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62882
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Teen Dream
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62881
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Coming into her own
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62886
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Boudoir
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62876
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swan
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62887
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pregnant
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62883
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Playing dress-up
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62877
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Red Boots
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62875
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Dancer
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62879
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Soledad
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62880
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Flowerchild
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62884
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pretty Ribbons
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62885
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Hotel Masquerade
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62890
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Flowers
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62874
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Soledad
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62873
Description: Author, Marie-Eve Gagnon, and photographer, Marisa Portolese, concoct a provocative work, entitled Un chevreuil à la fenêtre de ma chambre, around and through all the twists and turns of female desire. The book presents the reader with a set of short stories that dwell on the life and sexual experiences of the main protagonist 'Soledad', a young woman whose love life is full of tribulations and adventures. Throughout the book, Soledad narrates the sexual escapades that make up the successes and failures with lovers that are both male and female. The artist's subversive portraits reveal women who fully assume their feminity, their sexuality and the right to desire and to be desired, in attitudes that range from the defiant to the lewd.
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Date Made: 2003
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Philippe
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62844
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
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Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Brian
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62846
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: faces, Original CCCA
Dawit
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62851
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
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Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Comfortably Numb
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62871
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Philippe
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62850
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Simon
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62843
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Derelict
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62870
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Brian, John, Adam
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62847
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Dawit
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62840
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Marc
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62845
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
William
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62848
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Mario
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62842
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Filippo
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62841
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Hervé
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62839
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Andrew
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62836
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Tomasz
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62837
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Doll Heart
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62858
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Ivry
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62849
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Philippe
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62838
Description: Male Portraits. Landscape, human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this project. This new series of male portraits is informed by the sublime aesthetics traditionally employed by Romanticist painters, especially the work of Caspar David Friedrich.
Seascapes, ravines, forests, parks, and gardens are the backdrops used to create life size images of posed lone male figures that gaze intensely at us. These individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality, mental potentialities, isolation and human power.
These images also serve as vignettes illustrating masculine behaviour and all it's complexities. In an attempt to understand how male identities are negotiated, I seek to challenge the notion that men, masculinity, and male gender identity are homogenous categories.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2004
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Equestrian
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62868
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Selena
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62869
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Hush
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62866
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
On the Rivington, Dreaming
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62852
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
On the Rivington, Wishing
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62853
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Recluse
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62867
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Emerald Isle, François et William
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62854
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Painter
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62865
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Laura
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62864
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Calm After the Storm
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62861
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Miami
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62860
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Hervé
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62856
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Simon
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62857
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
True Blue
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62855
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Prince
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62863
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Rebel
Artist: Marisa Portolese
Work ID: 62862
Description: This new series of portraits brings together a cast of characters that are immersed in their own enigmatic and emotional landscape.
The solitary figure in each photograph offers a pensive gaze or subtle gesture that attempts to reveal a psychological state or intimate moment. Through physiognomy and expression, I try to capture a person's story, whereby each subject is depicted in their imagined world, enacting their own quiet drama which has left them disturbingly calm and comfortably numb.
The narratives ae malleable, but elucidate the complexities of self-awareness and play with the subtleties of the sitters' psychology. The series is about longing, hope, desire, failure, creation, solitude, daydreaming and contemplation.
Although human gesture and the figure in nature are at the core of this body of work, these individuals are meant to heighten an examination of personality and mental potentialities imbued through an emotive atmosphere.
Measurements: 76.2 x 101.6 cm/po
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: c-print
Virtual Collection: faces, Original CCCA
