This striking artwork captures a figure exuding avant-garde elegance and mystery. The subject's vividly red, architectural hairstyle is a focal point, contrasting sharply against their pale skin. A black netting veils the face, adding an enigmatic allure, while the choker accentuates the neck's graceful curve. The eyes, heavily lined and intensely expressive, suggest both introspection and defiance. The figure wears a vibrant lime-green skirt, injecting a vivid splash of color into the composition. The pose, with one hand delicately touching the chin and the other wrapped around the torso, conveys a sense of contemplation and poise. The minimalist, high-key background ensures full attention on the model, highlighting the daring fusion of fashion and art. This piece photography seamlessly blends elements of surrealism and high fashion, offering a bold commentary on identity and self-expression.
Indira with Red Hair, 2010. Photography
Indira with Red Hair, 2010
Archival pigment print.
Dimensions: 58.5 H x 46 W in.
Unique
Mounted on aluminum/plexiglass.
Efren Isaza, one of Colombia’s most influential fashion photographers, initially studied fashion design. He united his interest in fashion with one of his earliest passions: photography. Graceful female figures lounge in fashionable poses. Paper costumes that seem borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes.
Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal photographic experiments. Frida Kahlo’s face with her dark, furrowed eyebrows, peers at the viewer out of different scenes; her hair is knotted artfully on her head.The allusions evoked in the imaginative creations of Colombian Fashion photographer Isaza are diverse: he cites and alienates an arsenal of styles before melding them into new compositions OF ONE OF A KIND LIMITED EDITION ARTWORK. It might be a certain scene, a poem, a petal of a flower, or the idea of a person that inspires a new work. His passion for breaking the boundaries of traditional fashion photography is palpable in each of Isaza’s unique works. He is less concerned with fashion than the image, the play of contrasts and the magic and the emotions sometimes saturnine,sometimes buoyant, sometimes surreal, and yet always beguiling that the image transports.
