The portrait has always fascinated because it is supposed to give a glimpse of the true soul.
“Fictional Portraits” is performed under different conditions, which were not traditional posed portraiture sessions . The model had to play an undefined role in a synopsis not written in advance.
In a context of performance, these portraits paradoxically “caught on the spot” do not reflect the personality of the model.
They give us to see a double of the model’s reality,
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Body as Fashionable body used is a new type of Body not related to the Human Being neither a Robot.
It is a new entity, a fusion between mechanics and organics that has inspired the controversial novel “Crash” by J. G. Ballard.
These portraits done in 20012 is part of a documentary project done with the collaboration of the Fine Arts University of HCMC.
A visual art using the body to express emotions, such is the subject of dance.
Tender love, carnal love, dreamed love are made visible. Intimate gestures are exposed with coded forms which mesmerize the audience, awed by the drama of passion.
It is a kingdom that children build out of sight of adults. It is a theater without a stage of an unknown time where the people gather like in a village’s market place. Princesses, murderers, bears, aliens, all parade in a cheerful and festive crowd.