Spencer Tunick is in Mexico to launch an artistic residence

New York photographer Spencer Tunick will head today in Mexico the launch of an artistic residence in a new space: Jaguar Black Artist House. On this site, the documentary led by Chris Habib will be released from the first steps of Tunick, known for his iconic naked masses photographs in public spaces, until he became one of the most influential contemporary photographers.

Likewise, a Tunick photograph taken last year in Brisbane, Australia, a city where it portrayed 5,000 people about a Huge bridge. In fact, the city of Brisbane closed the Story bridge, created on steel brackets, so that I and participants could create artistic worksdetails a The day.

Tunick has documented the naked human figure in public through photography since 1992. Since 1994 he has organized more than 100 temporary facilities related to specific sites that include tens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers, and his photographs are records of these events. In their first group works, individuals, naked and in mass, gathered together, they metamorphose in a new form.

The bodies extend over the landscape as a substance. These group masses, which do not emphasize sexuality, often become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure conceptions about nude and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in public spaces, whether permanent or temporary.

Tunick creates scenes in which the battle between nature and culture is played, with various funds, from the civic center to the desert sand storm. In 2002, he began working with standing positions for his group formations, in reference to the traditional group portrait.

For the final configurations of the facilities, Tunick often organizes participants in smaller groups to make additional assemblies: sometimes by sex, sometimes by age, or even by hair color, but no one is excluded from an installation by color of his skin, ethnicity, gender identity, sex, race, religion or political affiliation.

Sometimes, perform facilities to increase awareness about cancer, HIV/AIDS, LGBT+rights, equality and climate change, among other issues.

Jaguar Black Artist House, located in Jalapa 132, Colonia Roma, is conceived as a place of residence, accommodation, research and artistic production.