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How would have been? by Romina Ressia

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:40:20 +0000

We featured the work of Argentina-based photographer Romina Ressia previously on iGNANT. Now she is back with the second part of her project ‘How would have been?’, exploring our constant longing for the past.

She was inspired by the fact that, despite the advances and technology humanity has today, we’re always complaining that things were better back then. Romina Ressia asked herself how people from the renaissance would have dealt with modern life, so she tried to visualize it by mixing those periods in her humorous imagery, wondering ‘Would they have done it in the same way?’

All images © Romina Ressia

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Not About Death by Romina Ressia

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:02:17 +0000

When thinking of our child-hood heroes, we just never envisioned them as a mortal cultural figure growing older, weaker, and even one day, passing away. Though Argentina-based photographer Romina Ressia visualized just that in her series entitled ‘Not About Death’. The eerie photographs chronicle Superman, Snow White and Wonder Woman as elderly folks, still donning their uniforms but instead of the flowing manes and perfect complexions of comic or fairy tale youth, the characters are shown sporting grey hair and wrinkled skin, resting in their coffins after death.

The artist states: “This project explores how we stand faced to the real world, as individuals, with the baggage we bring, which has been inculcated to us through cartoons, comics and fictional characters throughout our childhood. As many other children, I have grown up with the ideals of omnipotence, beauty, physical and supernatural powers. I have been told that evil never wins; that if I am in a dangerous situation, somebody else will save me, and that all stories have a happy ending. This series explores how strongly those values and beliefs have been incorporated into the collective memory.”

All images © Romina Ressia | Via: Huffingtonpost

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Renaissance Brushstrokes by Romina Ressia

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:53:39 +0000

For her project ‘Renaissance Brushstrokes’ photographer Romina Ressia created a set of classic portraits operated – without digital manipulation – but with brushstrokes which work as the link between two eras, and between the old and the contemporary. With her works Romina explores the similarities between tradition and modernism, between old and new, the common and the unknown. She aims to find out, how our past affects society nowadays and how other atemporal issues are managed today. It’s her way to examine how we’re touched by the changing world in which we live in.

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