JORDI BERNADÓ, ID Project
JORDI BERNADÓ, ID Project
A character. A place. One shot. In ID Project, the artist Jordi Bernadó proposes a series of portraits of people who inspire him. Scientists, activists, Nobel Prize winners, writers, among others. The selection is personal, it responds to the artist's desire to weave a visual dialogue between his gaze and the protagonists.
ID PROJECT – AN APPROACH TO THE GENRE OF PORTRAITURE
ID Project explores the essence of human identity, that which supposedly makes us unique. Yet the photographs are subject to two conditions. First, the participants must choose where they will be photographed. This cannot be just any place, but that which represents their place in the world. Second, the artist asks them to turn their backs to the camera. It is not their face that he captures, but the absence of it. An absent face in a meaningful landscape. Place becomes the only hint the spectators have about the identity of the person in the image.
We all have a place in the world, a place to love, to miss, a place to return to. And we all have our own reasons for choosing it. In this case, the meaning of each location is captured in the photograph, but not revealed. A secret between the protagonist and the artist.
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, who attempted to fence the void that resides in everything important, chose to have his portrait taken at The London Library.
Londres (UK 10.1), 2015, C- print