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The issue or social media problematics were key motivations for this work in the earlier stage. I had the endless drive to reflect on this particular issue as it is a big part of our everyday lives.
This project includes many different themes and contexts, although it can be explained as a reflection to the largest extent. This work furthermore touches subjects such as gay desires, men’s masculinity, showing the body in a rather humorous way, which also reflects on heteronormativity way of showing male body. The work shows a performance of scrutinizing the body into the details.
I also examine the journey of finding the peace within own body and building relationship with it. The work also evokes the endless drive for perfection and confidence, which I have never discovered through my body.
The photographs show my body in a medical way, which is the absolute opposite of modern hegemonic masculinity, shown on social media. The pictures of my body are reflecting on the stereotypical images of men. It almost feels like I am revealing the “box” full of my insecurities towards the audience. Not just through my body, but also through my ginger hair and skin.
Longing Studies
“What could be more pleasurable and full of loss than the colour blue?”
— Carol Mavor
Following this reflection, I began to explore blue as an emotional and atmospheric state.
What does it mean, what does it represent, and what is it commonly associated with?
For me, blue became inseparable from nostalgia — a colour of distance, memory, and quiet longing.
The series brings together Polaroid photographs of skies taken in different places, each image functioning as a fragment of that feeling: suspended, soft, and slightly out of reach.
Together, they form a set of visual studies on longing, atmosphere, and the subtle weight carried by the colour blue.
DAVID SVETLIK 