Roberto GrecoPorter sa Peau

Wearing your skin is meant to reflect my thinking, however distorted it may be - and my experience. Wearing your skin like you wear blinders, to see better and farther, will have been my way of observing myself through this photographic series. So I had to bend down to perceive the shimmering image of another myself. The narcissus flower came naturally when I started working with perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. In addition to its symbolism, the ambivalent facets of this flower express both the idea of a raw nature and that, more pictorial, of a carnal perspective. To materialize the grainy and misty texture that I give to my images; where a perceptual confusion precedes a certain clarity; we blew hot and cold with a nostalgic game of aldehydes. The fluffy floral of a pale hawthorn binds to the sly velvety of moist flesh, before vanishing into animal vapors of salty musk and an ambergris accord. – Roberto Greco