Description: Santiago Forero is a Colombian visual artist working in photography. His work explores ideas about the body, identity, scale and domination in relation to familiar media images.
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My photographic work investigates the common imaginaries that insinuate the role of the body in society. This revision of popular images has encouraged me to shift the direction of the camera to myself and invert earlier ideas of studying the body by using self-portraiture. I am driven to question the depiction of my own figure, a body that has been used and abused to represent different kind of fantasy characters in folktales, literature, fables, paintings, illustrations, and films.
In the series "Interiors" I play the protagonist instead of being the dream of another character or the viewer. The scenes take place in the domestic space, where the main character performs household activities. However, they suggest an inner state of the body beyond the surface.