Both in the History of Humanity and in personal history, the meeting with “Other one” has a determining role in the formation of the human being, on both a group and individual level.
The preparatory step for this meeting is the “Intimacy”, the place supposedly where the internal forum is shaped. Authors like J. L. Prado and, fundamentally, his work "The intimacy" have served me as the basis for the approximation to this concept.
The artist use the idea of the toilet as metaphor (place of privacy) in order to express this change –how the bathroom, close to the introspection and concentration typical of the 19th century or of Tanizaki's traditional Japanese toilet, has become a place of conformation of the mask, in the most frivolous and superficially possible term.
This idea of the “mask” as a superficial presentation of "What you want me to be" is intimately related to the conformation of the alter ego, today so exposed to the public in such social networks as Flicker, Facebook, etc.
In this series of "portraits" is given lot of importance to the pose – people posing in front of the mirror or the webcam. This series focus on the composition of the mask and its exhibition. Here the portrayed people look directly at the spectator, confusing the ideas of looking and of posing, creating an ambiguous image.