Marcio Mascarenhas

On the 20th of March Solent was Privileged to have two guest speakers, Marcio Mascarenhas and Rasmus Vasli. Both talked about their very different approaches to the idea of Portraiture. 
Mascarenhas worked with in communication before he worked with photography, thought this he was able to understand people and their communications with the world, whether this be though photography or the internet. 

I as another 

The work 'I as another' was very much about the individual and how with out others do you have meaning. The way that Mascarenhas described this was the famous saying 'if a tree falls down in the Amazon forest, and there is no one there, does it make a sound'. In this same way if we have no one else's interaction of opinion or communication then what does that make us? 
From this we can further understand how others shape us into who we are, and that we are not just shape buy our serfs and our personal experiences. 

Moving on from this project Mascarenhas created a second body of work called 'The Bodies I live in'. With in this work Mascarenhas was no longer looking at the way that the images can be seen as an art work, but more about the meaning with in the images.

The Bodies I live in

With the series 'The Bodies I live in' Mascarenhas looked at how as people we are not built up of one central being, that whether we choose to except it or not was are made up of many different identities with in our self's. 
The images are constructs digitally and made into Cubist art works that allow you to see the areas of the bodies that you could consider to be each of their identities that have been contorted into one body.