Roe Ethridge. Happy Birthday Louise Parker

Louise’s image takes on a hypnotic significance over the course of the exhibition: we see her transiting from photographic sets conceived in every detail to more spontaneous and private portraits, thus manifesting the intertwining of life and representation, of everyday life and staging. In this series of portraits, the artist’s gaze meets the conscious gaze of the model, according to a rhythm that thematises and transcends the relationship of interaction between the photographer, the lens and the subject, between the intentionality of the authorial vision and that of the pose of those being portrayed. Within this narrative, Roe Ethridge inserts fragments of his own biography, making the artist’s intimate world a subject affected by the passage of time. Through a nonlinear narrative, relationships and frictions emerge between diaristic and commissioned images, fashion and individual memory. Ethridge’s practice, represented in digital compositions and overlapping image collages, explores the multiple spaces occupied by images, from advertising to the praise of the mundane, offering a glimpse into the creative process and demonstrating the continuous and diverse nature of images.