CHROMATIC AWARDS 2023 BOOK
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ANNUAL BOOK / LOS ANGELES 2024, UNITED STATES
{GracefulLily}’s Wedding Morning
About OMG project
I eye, therefore I am. From time to time, I point-and-click, therefore I shoot your fetish-hologram – that (always) does it! It’s my ante-feminism trick that triggers your pedantic iris diaphragm.
My photo-finish lifelines start with that “another you”. You stop where they commence. I intertwine your piercing shards of greyish blue with B&W reactionary bloodlines that may seem a sociological offense. I chalk that up to a repetitive, yet differentiated casting choice. My peers simply call it happenstance.
Therefore I stare. Therefore I raze? I masquerade, I track down- therefore I (meta) sin?! Am I, perchance, the Original Male Gaze? I’m looking at your eyes. I only see your skin. You brand me toxic while you riff & live-stream my symmetric narcissistic praise.
Appendix
Inspired by the deuterocanonical addition (Ch.13) of the Book of Daniel and the work of Juan Manuel Blanes (“La Casta Susana”, c1862), I wanted to decontextualize an imaginary stance in which Susanna (meaning “graceful lily” in Hebrew), a Classical symbol of virtue and piety, is depicted completely alone, on day of her wedding, years before the moment that fascinated artists such as Lorenzo Lotto, Van Dyck, Artemisia Gentileschi or Picasso.
More details on “OMG” series: https://alexandru-crisan.com/projects/omg/
BOOK DETAILS:
Published by Chromatic Awards 20023 in the 7th Annual Book edition with “(GracefulLily)’s Wedding Morning“ / © Alexandru Crisan 2018.R2021
editor: Chromatic Awards, US by Blurb
format: 20 x 25 cm
year: published in February 2024
details: 108 pages
You can order the book at: https://chromaticawards.com/book/