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| Gabriele Basilico / Contact / 1984 |
Contact is a photo series that portrays the different impressions left on the skin by various types of chairs, this is displayed in an archival manner, giving the sense that the series of images were taken as an experiment and the photographs produced are factual and also biographical. An imprint on the skin is usually formed by a pressure acting on the skin's surface however in this photo series the chair, the dependent variable, is the object which is being acted on by the constant, the subject, which is then documented to show the visible effect that this causes on the body. This allows the varying chairs to represent something greater, such as another person that is supporting the subject and feeding their dependence for them. The marks that are then viewed on the body afterwards, when the subject is no longer relying on the object, symbolises the pain and suffering that the withdrawal from that person inflicts upon them.
Each chair embellishes the body with unique marks emphasising that the subject varied in their dependence on the object, with varying emotional situations relating to each different individual that the collection of chairs shows. Contact is a morbid biographical project which bluntly states that love always ends in heartache, whilst also highlighting the pain of dependence on an individual, especially when the individual withdraws and does not reciprocate the need.
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