The Privilege of intimacy

This series of photographs consists of nudes in both negative and developed formats. These close-up representations of bodies symbolise the „privilege of intimacy’ . The proximity of the bodies neutralises the question of gender; there is no possible identification and at the same time identification with the subject becomes universal. The body could belong to anyone, to us or to a stranger. The contrast between the negative and the positive photograph plays a multiple role, representing both the security and equality of being with someone who may or may not be HIV positive. It is also the mark of a shift and upheaval between the person's interiority and their exteriority, the image they project to the world. This mirrored formation reinforces a duality by creating new shapes for the bodies, prompting the viewer to question the notion of deformity or normality. What conforms? What does not? Do my mental and social limitations prevent me from perceiving a world that I perhaps don't understand? The use of the nude is not innocent; it is the very embodiment of intimacy, but it is also through the body that we evoke the most meaning, both in the notion of significance and in the idea of physiological senses.