Rodin's Drawings

This series came out of a simple protocol. Before each session the models looked at a set of Auguste Rodin's drawings. No pose was demonstrated, no composition suggested, the drawings only served as an initial spark.
Rodin made these sketches fast, catching movement as it happened. They were never meant as finished pieces, just fragments of observation and instinct. The models, in turn, responded freely, without imitation, letting gesture come up through their own bodies.
Instead of recreating Rodin's drawings, the photographs explore the same ground he was working in: the fleeting point where movement, balance and sensation come together into form.
The vertical panoramic format echoes the proportions of Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau compositions, while the soft tonal range nods to the pictorialist photographers of the late nineteenth century. None of these references function as quotations, they are visual resonances linking photography, drawing and the living body.
What comes out of this is neither a study of Rodin nor a performance of his work. These are contemporary explorations of the body as a space of constant invention, where gesture stays free, short-lived, and impossible to pin to any fixed form.