ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In 2015, María José Cárceles devised a literary and sociological experiment that would result in the novel Arde el Trópico. The Project, directed by Rafael Hortal, revolved around sensuality and had the participation of 51 writers and 15 artists, including myself. Our commission was to illustrate the novel.

With my work, this photographic series that I titled Trópicos in reference to the book, I tried to break the classic ties that relate the woman's body to eroticism.

The human figure is a very little used element in my work. It appears especially in sculpture and in a fragmented way, perhaps as a sign of our extreme fragility and temporality.

The intention with Trópicos was to break the relationship between the female nude and sexuality through the physical manipulation of the photographic support, without operating digitally. Thus, a discursive reunion is established, a mixture of analog memory and digital communication.

AUTHOR
Luis Marino
Born in Spain in 1960.
He was living in New York between 1984 and 1985, and was a founding member of the ‘Latin American Artist Group, Inc.’. He returned to Spain in 1986 and founded ‘Grupo de Artes Plásticas Almagra’ and, in 2014, ‘Grupo Art Nostrum’.
He is a collaborating member of the ‘F-20 Photographic Association’ since 2012.

TRAINING: Professional Master in Technical Photography and Expression, UCAM University, Murcia; Postgraduate Certificate in Visual Arts, Photography and Creative Action, Miguel Hernández University.

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