Spain, 1980.
Lives and works between Madrid, Málaga y Granada.
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: The News
Archival Pigment Print
2016
65 x 53 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: The Last Time
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 1/3
65 x 53 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: At 7 PM
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 1/3
65 x 53 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: The Client
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: Motel Capri
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
The Life of the Other: Burning Man
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics. The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences. Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal. The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera. A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted. The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
La lección de esgrima
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
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Fernando Bayona
Piel de asno
Impresión Ink Jet
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65x53cm, Ed. 3: 106x84cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Anunciación
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Nacimiento
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Jesús y Maria Magdalena
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Baptism
Archival Pigment Print
2014
65 x 53 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Jesús predicando
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: La última cena
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: El beso de Judas
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Crucifixión
Archival Pigment Print
Ed. 1/2
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: Jesus yacente
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: La piedad
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Circus Christi: La duda de Tómas
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels. The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based. The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: At Home
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: The Dinner
Archival Pigment Print
2017
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
65 x 53 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: Street
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: Still Life
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm, Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm & Ed. 2:
135 x 106 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: Green Light
2017
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation. Pedro Alarcón, Curator, Spain.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Out of the Blue: Boy
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us. Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy. In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote. In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view. The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Once Upon a Time: Los Siameses
Archival Pigment Print
Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3:
65 x 53 cm
Impression Ink Jet Available in 3 sizes: Ed. 3: 106 x 84 cm, Ed. 2: 135 x 106 cm & Ed. 3: 65 x 53 cm
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Fernando Bayona
Spain, 1980.
Lives and works between Madrid, Málaga y Granada.
FERNANDO BAYONA. (Jaén, Spain, 1980) Lives and works in Madrid & Granada.
Bachelor in Arts by the University of Granada and a Master in Photography by the Universidad NABA Milán, Itay, amongst other diplomas he is an artist, College professor, keynote speaker and art promoter.
Bayona’s oeuvre has been exhibited at Nueva York, Buenos Aires, Bruselas, Berlín, Milán, Roma, Venecia, Osaka, Túnez, trhoughout Spain and Mexico City with ALMANAQUE featuring his work at Material Art Fair, Arco Madrid, arteBA Buenos Aires and Photo London, followed by his solo show “Appearances Apparatus” at ALMANAQUE, curated by the artist and Arturo Delgado, with a text by the preeminent art historian Alberto Ríos de la Rosa.
Bayona is recipient of the Manuel Rivera Iniciarte, Propuestas VEGAP, BilbaoArte - Spain, Eberhard y BSI-Switzerland, KabushikiKaisha-Japan, Agencia Magnum & NABA - Italy, Estampa Madrid, Unicaja, Fundación Arena and The SONY World Photography Awards among others.
Available works:
Circus Christi
A subversive new version of the life of Jesus, located on the periphery of any large city and temporarily set from the 70s until today. A cast of actors undertakes the interpretations of fictional characters that bear great parallels with those that actually appear in the New Testament gospels.
The project analyzes the limits of the alteration of History, the freedom of expression and the meaning that dogmatic scorn has in today's society. It thus enters into conflict with the ideological, cultural and economic interests of religious or political groups that try to censor any type of manifestation that threatens the bases on which their sources of power are based.
The 14 images that make up Circus Christi represent a contemporary way of life that narrates the intense life of Jesus, the vocalist and leader of the fictional music group Circus Christi. The initial 3 shots are set in the early 70's when his father José, a small-time camel is sentenced in jail, and his mother María is forced to work as a prostitute to support her family.
Fernando Bayona, Artist, Spain.
Out of the Blue
Something that happens unexpectedly and places us in a kind of vertex. From that point, it is difficult not to see one's existence as something dividing us forever in before and after. The diagnosis of a disease that will change us without remission, the arrival of someone who gives a turnaround to our universe or a circumstance which shakes the fundaments of what we known. Certainly, the Anglo-Saxon expression Out of the blue can refer to that something good or bad appearing out of nowhere -without previous warning. However, Fernando Bayona has focused its search on that uncertainty that is based within us.
Leaving us in a deep state of melancholy.
In out of the blue, the Bayona’s story becomes opaque, placing a singular emphasis on life’s mystery, in the eyes of all inexplicable, and that we will pose before the scene photographed in a disturbing diatribe: Something ends to happen, yet that something is in the mood of the characters. In some of these images, our contaminated look could reach erroneous conclusions, perhaps dark and remote.
In an interesting shooting that drinks from the cinematographic schemes, Bayona stages a collection of real locations that have been photographed in exceptional light conditions - thanks to a generator moved through out the different scenarios- then post-produced with an intense complex processed addressing the image from a pictorial point of view.
The artist, finally, lets us decide how do they correspond to inside or outside, so that the expectation’s experiences and imagination become essential to the story’s interpretation.
Pedro Alarcón, Curator, Spain.
The Life of the Other
A research project halfway between documentary and staged photography composed of 16 images, the project reflects on the use of the body as work support by three professional collectives, that is, as an object of intangible desire, in the case of strippers or porn actors, or those that are subordinated through an economic consideration, in the case of the hustlers
The title of the series refers to the game of identities and fictions carried out by these workers to protect their privacy. A sort of "alter egos" or virtual masks that dissociate them from their person, a construct of themselves created to develop their profession through the representation of a feigned character, which mutates to adapt to the work demands or demands of different clients, thus becoming - consciously or unconsciously - permanent actors of the same and endowing it with a very specific life and characteristics.
The initial phase of the project is based on interviews with the different participants of the study, thus realizing an approach to the real person, depriving it of the protective device of the mask to be able to understand its reality, its experiences and experiences.
Starting from the stories obtained, the project reconstructs photographically some of the passages of its intense life, a mise en scène that gives visibility to stories that tend to be hidden by shame or fear of social rejection due to the stigmatization of the profession, a way to make public something that in nature is very intimate and personal.
The characters appearing in each image are played by professional actors, who feel and suffer the lives of the real protagonists, and mix with them who reinterpret their own experiences. This is established as a strategy agreed with each and every one of them to preserve their anonymity despite showing their face before the camera.
A double fiction, that of the character that this typology of professionals creates for themselves and protects them from society, and that they have to interpret in the photographic capture within the project, generating permanent doubt in the viewer who does not know who is the real and who the interpreter or interpreted.
The project explores the special life characteristics of these workers, deepening in issues such as repressed desire, relationships, affective problems, the cultural environment, immigration, the profile of clients, different sexual practices, illness , loneliness, social stigma or double standards of citizenship among many other tangential issues. A kind of parallel reality in which economic, cultural, religious, health, or simple personal decisions are interrelated that tend to occur in the limits between the public and the private.
Fernando, Bayona, Spain.