BEHIND THE FOURTH WALL - EVELYN | 2024
Video Sketch - cutdown, 02:06, MP4, 1920 x 1080px
BEHIND THE FOURTH WALL is a decentralized, non-hierarchical photographic practice addressing the nude fem-assigned body. Created in collaboration with photographer Joanna Krawczyk, the concept disrupts the traditional power dynamic between photographer and subject through the use of a remote shutter release, allowing the subject to become the photographer, and vice versa. When explored with multiple participants, this exchange produces a horizontal structure in which all subjects maintain equal agency and autonomy. Using multiple technologies—including analogue, digital, laptop, and cellphone—alongside unedited video, the work presents a multiview approach to nude photography that actively dismantles the fourth wall and fem objectification.
These featured works are selected from a series of images captured in collaboration with fellow photographer and friend, Evelyn Bencicova. The three artists photographed themselves and each other in a repetitive choreography, featuring three photographic devices - a digital camera, an analogue camera and a laptop. The work is an extension of Flynn and Krawczyk’s egalitarian approach to the photographic practice, and with the participation of an additional collaborator, is an exercise in nurture-culture, where co-creation, vulnerability and intimacy exists alongside individual and autonomous creative expression.
In this video-sketch the improvised choreography produced by the subjects - as a result of the photographic creative process - is portrayed as a performance-work in it’s own right. In the production of the still-image, the subjects position themselves in relation to the photographic devices and then activate the shutter to capture a specific moment in time and their bodies within the frame. However, this omnipresent video-recording exposes this process and reveals the intimate moments in-between each composition. In witnessing this, the audience has an inside-eye to the personal dynamic between the participants - a byproduct of the image production that is often hidden in the presentation of photographic works. Flynn and Krawczyk highlight this as a nod to their pursuit of alternative relational practices, queer dynamics and the act of non-hierarchical co-creation.
