What do we really look like when we dream? What does our body look like, as seen through the eyes of our nightmares? Often our fears in sleep are anthropomorphic, while we rarely have an idea of how our arms and legs exist in the subconscious. Marius Budu with his ‘Dreamworld‘ series traces the steps of the human experience, combining the cold objectivity of photography to the mystery of dream worlds, in which the viewer enters through lenses that distort the bodies of the models. In dreams are we perhaps naked? Our naked body, stripped of social status and preconceptions related to the clothing we wear, is the purest form to reach the human spirit that Marius Budu wants to explore. To do so, he does not stop at the form with which we are accustomed to observing ourselves, but imagines it malleable, overwhelmed by spirals that elongate the limbs, leaving recognizable only a few details such as skin color, breasts and twisted legs. In this way our body becomes only one of the possibilities, while the dream a range of many other worlds and dimensions within which our bodies can live.
In the Divergent, Lilith, Omega, Pulsar, Revolution series, the photographs represent Budu’s fascination with the human body as raw material for art. The shots are stimuli for the viewers, nothing is certain but only suggested, playing with the expectations of the viewer and the limits of empirical experience.
Divergent
Lilith
Omega
Pulsar
Revolution
Models:
Divergent: Stephanie Sahlgren
Lilith: Lilith Etch
Omega: Aja Jane, Kyle Patrick, Petr Devaikin, Bonny Zahara, Delfine Dahlia, Nils Loe, Victoria G. and Estela Suarez
Pulsar: Aja Jane
Revolution: Simone
