PRIS Basic Pleasure Model XII - Silvia Celeste Calcagno

Photographic print, hand-retouched with enamels and synthetic thinners on International Paper ProDesign 300 gsm cardboard

Piece unique

41x27.5 cm

2021

PRIS Basic Pleausure Model is a clear cinematic reference to the figure of Pris in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). The female figures represent replicants halfway between Cyberpunk and Science Fiction. In this case, the replicants testify to the desire for an existence not subordinated to everyday life and a certain degree of rebellion through a radical change in the social order, expressed through a utopian genetic mutation that makes them "elaborate" first from a photographic point of view, then from a pictorial point of view, thanks to the use of "acid" colors that accentuate their lack of belonging to reality. Their nature is unnatural. Rebels against nature first of all. Rebels against pictorial flesh, against vital carnality. Rebels against the cycle of life and therefore stronger and immortal. But the price was high: renouncing naturalness.