Falsas Polaroids

 

| False Polaroids |
MAx Provenzano
(solo show)
LARGO Café EstúdioLargo Residências
08102021

After 3 years living in Lisbon I finally present this personal project which is a partial display of my personal archive, a vision of my work through the polaroid format, false polaroids.

Polaroid photographs offer the possibility to produce an instantaneous recording with certain characteristics of this medium, such as:

- the square format,

- tones;

- reaction of the emulsion.

In terms of image production, this possibility of being able to develop a photo taken in just seconds was in the past, the closest aspect to what digital photography currently represents, differing from the photographic support involved. Nowadays, obtaining an image in real time has revolutionized the way we perceive the world, offering different possibilities of communication by technical images, thanks to the wide access to different photographic mediums, from the most complex cameras to the simplest mobile devices.When we watch a Polaroid, there is an implicit character linked to the immediacy of this medium. Actually, it is possible to find mechanisms that allow images to be produced on this medium, blurring the idea that a Polaroid was necessarily the product of a direct shot.

False Polaroids is the most recent exhibition of the artist MAx Provenzano, offering a display of his archive through photographs and compositions in Polaroids. In his research, the artist works with the relationships between his body and the different objects that he encounters on his way, producing images which combine the context and his personal life, worrying about the mechanisms of circulation and formulation of archives on digital media.

Images of actions for the camera and performances are, on this occasion, transferred to the Polaroid format. They are combined with objects or presented as photographs, establishingtensions over the technical origin of these images, are they photographs that were initially conceived as polaroids, or is it a possibility offered by the technologies of recreating imagesin classic formats and generating false expectations about this medium in specific? There is a need for the artist to work on processes that involve traditional elements as a channel for the activation of memory; and from his nostalgia, re-signify them incontemporaneity.