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O by Luis Alberto Rodriguez
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O by Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Loose Joints

A collection of works by Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez.

Rodriguez trained as a dancer at the Juilliard School and performed around the world for 15 years before turning to photography, where she continues to explore the human body in motion and uses photography to portray her subjects' bodies in sculptural and abstract ways.

In this work, the artist attempts to deconstruct staged and reified approaches to photography through a series that explores the descent of life, the construction of identity, and our connection to spiritual destiny. Inspired by the French mystic Simone Weil, Rodriguez connects his naked portraits to Weil's search for the relationship between purity, suffering, and transcendence throughout her 34-year life. Using subjects of different bodies, ages, backgrounds, and identities, Rodriguez sculpts a series of nudes that oscillate between power and loss of control. Bodies contort and crumble, returning to position, lifting gracefully, reaching for purity. How much control do we have over the direction we go? How soft is the landing? Rodriguez places his striking nudes in dialogue with images of traditional Dominican tea divination, spiritualizing the power and beauty of the people who appear and leave his camera.

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Title: O
Artist: Luis Alberto Rodriguez
Loose Joints, 2023
Hardcover with ribbon, section-sewn
270 x 320 mm
156 pages
First edition
Text in English
ISBN: 978-1-912719-41-9
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