The term Still life comes from Still Even in Dutch and determines a pictorial genre that focuses on organizing in a plastic, evocative and symbolic way elements belonging to the immediate environment, weighing up those of an organic nature. His themes touch on everyday life, aiming at a portrait of it and of the habits that go through it.

 

Habit as uniform, habit as repetition, habit as inhabiting.

 

The intimate environment is mainly populated by the female gender and its association with domestic work. At the core of this scenario, a need for gender expands, which faces nothingness from repeated and binding actions as a fabric to contain, to shelter, to sustain, to nourish. Women seem to have a notion of a negative germinal space against which all weaving is urgent and useless, but, above all, necessary. 

 

There is a nihilistic shadow that looms over the aesthetics of these images. The trail of a "Vanitas" or of flamenco still lifes slips through in the use of chiaroscuro and textures to stir up sensuality. These images seek to corrupt, from the photographic point of view, the circle of contemporary generation of images, where the private is exhibited without intermediaries. 

 

I would like to return the photographic image to its fullness of virtualities, enriching the term "Still life".