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Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica
Rita Lino / Replica

Rita Lino

Replica

€40,00
21,5 × 29 cm, 120 p, ills colour and b&w, hardcover
ISBN 9789493146792
edit: Jurgen Maelfeyt & Rita Lino
design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
text: Brad Feuerhelm
Edition of 750
November 2021

‘Replica’ suggest a new reading of the body and the model as a pure image,  a pure tool, without referring to any representative identity, hereby ignoring today’s contemporary society of what the self should be.

Lino refers strongly to American mid-century photographer William Mortensen, who states that a body is simply considered to be “a machine that needs adjustments.” According to Mortensen the body must be the basis, “representation of personality and emotion […] are irrelevant and misleading”. There is a certain dehumanization in Mortensen’s approach to the model, a return of the body to an object without meaning, in front of the camera. Mortensen saw models as clay that form the image, a body was articulated only by the operator’s intention. He wanted to strip the figure from its emotion and personality, so that we, as an audience, could consider the body as a formed prop and stare at the image as the essence, and not the subject.

In Lino’s case she is the model, the operator / photographer, the subject and the image at the same time. She is in complete control. She found a way to remove herself from representation and reduced her own body to a pure object and image, almost like a machine. ‘Replica’ is a manifestation of the artist’s understanding of her role in front of and behind the camera.

‘Replica’ is a prescient of an approaching future in which identity will surrender to the carefree machine of image

Special Edition availablehere

Born in Portugal, 1986. Rita Lino began tracing her own path in Photography by exploring freely and without any kind of pre-conception the construction of the still image. Focusing mainly on her personal work, the photographer as been developing and materializing it under series of photos, visual exercises that explore a “natural obsession” with the self and the persona, a continuous “work-in-progress” that uses the body as primer matter to be re-created and beautifully exorcised.