Rafal Michalak
LOVE IMPOSSIBLE (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Love Impossible series was created in 2017 and refers to the famous Lovers by French painter - René Magritte. The image was interpreted in number of ways. One of the most widespread is the reference to blind love, when the perception of a loved one takes place through a special filter that falsifies both perception and interpretation of reality.
The series of black and white photographs was taken in the studio without the participation of third parties or assistants. It is a photographic record of the performance, during which the actors play sex scenes. Both, the woman taking part in the performance and the man (the author of the project) are naked, but their bodies have been wrapped in foil.
Love Impossible is an allegorical reference to the loneliness of people in relationships and non-fulfilment in interpersonal relations. Desires fuelled by lust and our imagination are impossible to fulfil, which is symbolized by an invisible barrier in the form of a plastic film - a kind of skin through which one cannot feel and experience anything. Despite visible involvement, closeness and intimacy in this relationship, the fusion is only symbolic, because the barrier does not allow for fulfilment.
AUTHOR
Rafał Michalak
Born 1971. Lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland. He studied political science and public relations. At present he studies Photography and Multimedia at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. He has been associated with the advertising industry and commercial photography for years. In his everyday work he deals with brand communication issues as well as visual identity development for companies and corporations. At the same time he is actively engaged in creating his own original photography, thereafter presented in exhibitions and published in trade magazines.
PRIZES
November 2015
1st prize & Golden Glass award | SHAME photography & THE WALL, series of photographs in the category a PERSON for a picture
11th Photographic Open Championship Olsztyn 2015, held under the auspices of Olsztyn City Major
June 2015
1st place | The WALL, series of photographs
Special Prize of the FORMAT magazine
3th Biennial of Art in Piotrków Trybunalski, a national contest entitled POST APOCALYPSE
ODA – Center of Art in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
August 2013
1st place | Loneliness photography
The Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award
Gold Medal for photographic creations
8th Black & White Photography Biennial
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