Photography (MA)
Tris Bucaro
Tris Bucaro is a visual artist based in London whose practice confronts the self-image, intimacy, and gesture through photography, film, sculpture, and performance. His research considers the location of the self within an image and the oscillation between totality and impermanence, utilizing the self-portrait as a means of examining the regenerative nature of a photograph.
His work has been exhibited in New York, London, and Paris, most recently in Everything the Same // Everything a Little Different at The Art Academy Newington, London, 2019.
BFA Photography and Imaging, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 2017
MA Photography, Royal College of Art, 2020
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The Height of Heaven positions the artist in a state of post-intimacy, examining the transitional state of remnants and remains of sexual encounters and considering the implication of haptics on liminal spaces. Rooted in the action of generating visual tangibility, the photographs act as documents of the marks which no longer remain in these space-times, documents which are handled and re-handled as objects, reaching for a sense of permanence.
The body’s ability to give and receive touch and to inform a space through movement and gesture is difficult to encapsulate in immediacy or singularity. The ecstasy of an encounter leaves marks – a scratch, a bruise, a stain – and shapes how we view an initial touch or feeling. These works reconstruct that initial feeling which has already passed, but can still be felt and sensed in space. Hands leave marks on the prints as they are collated and layered, giving permanence not only to the gesture, but to the life of an image, to time passed embedded on the photograph.
These stains are in response to the inaccessibility to the photographic in isolation. As the photographs made over the past year for The Height of Heaven are to be realized in physical space, the stains recall the first image taken for the series (Stain I, 2019) and seek to reestablish the initial encounter that lead to the examination of the haptics of a post-intimate space.
