A collection of ten large-scale photographs elaborately constructed underwater by Melbourne-based photographer Lilli Waters. That includes shells, fish, flowers, and the feminine kind, “Orpheus” presents a darkish waterscape that feels other-worldly. The challenge is an exploration of the human situation — hope and despair, social and environmental consciousness — by means of dramatic photographs of girls amidst haunting landscapes. Whereas such a mixture could seem to reiterate typical idealizations of girls’s our bodies or their romanticized connection to the pure world, Waters’ encourages a essential gaze. Her intention is to grapple with the very issue of being in a girl’s pores and skin: of navigating one’s bodily company in a society that consistently objectifies you. A society that equally wreaks irrevocable injury to the shared atmosphere as nicely.
“We live by means of an age the place our lens on the world should consistently shift and refocus as new concepts, crises, social actions and the pure atmosphere quickly modifications. A degree of poetic consciousness is required to navigate this new world and at instances hopeless panorama. Orpheus was a poet, a prophet and a musician in Greek mythology who on the finish of his life worshipped no god however the solar. For these photographs, I wished Orpheus to be a girl who’s glistening oracle-like, asleep on a darkish sandscape. The viewer is invited to embrace their very own mortality and vitality for change concurrently. To dare to be one’s personal illumination—like a transient level of sunshine in an evening sky.”
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