…the artwork has its true being in the fact that it becomes an experience that modifies the one who experiences it. The subject of the art experience, what remains and stays constant, is not the subjectivity of the one who experiences it but the artwork itself.(1)
Hans-Georg Gadamer. Truth and Method.
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Out of any scientific, political or aesthetic discourse, PHENOTYPE a secret game narrates an artistic experience.
PHENOTYPE a secret game is considered a work in progress where individual and group photographs are taken of families that belong to two contemporary generations and whose components have been born in different century (XX and XXI) and millennium (2nd and 3rd).
The photographs will be taken outdoors with natural light and with a neutral background without any spatial references. Each family group will establish a set that will be numerated and named according to the day in which the photographic session was taken.
Participants are offered the artistic experience of being exposed to the camera and being photographed with the purpose of revealing their traits that were transmitted, inherited and shared with the other family members that are mirrored in their appearance and show the particular difference of every individual, their phenotype.
PHENOTYPE a secret game started with the series 1/The first family, mine (1/2 OC/PA) y 2/28-01-2018 (4/4).
In PHENOTYPE a secret game the artistic piece happens and will be set up, by modifying its entity to everyone who has access to it.
THE GAME HAS STARTED
* Phenotype is defined as a manifestation of the individual heritage more or less modified by the environment and by its life experience. The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype (the total sum of genes transmitted from parent to offspring) and the environment.
(1) Hans-Georg Gadamer. Truth and Method. 1975. Sígueme Edition. Salamanca, 2017 . Pag 145
PHENOTYPE a secret game
– Serie 1/The first family, mine. (2 OC/PA)
Digital photographic composition. 20 pieces.
Size of each image: 30 x 45 cm
Size of the composition: 120 x 225 cm
*1/2 OC/PA. Collection of art work. THE FACTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. AMMÁN. JORDANIA.
– Serie 2/28-01-2018. (1/4)
Digital photographic composition. 25 pieces.
Size of each image: 30 x 45 cm
Size of the composition: 150 x 220 cm.
– Serie 3/15-08–2018 (1/4)
Digital photographic composition. 24 pieces.
Size of each image: 30 x 45 cm
Size of the composition: 120 x 270 cm.