The project was conceived as a collaborative piece with the gestures of Pontormo’s Deposition as the original site and center of the work. The painted gestures trace the configuration of bodies and/as fabric: lines radiating, taut. Close study of the original canvas were followed by process-drawings and the performance of the work: which brought fabric against bodies – my own, a collaborator’s – assuming new dimension, and force, between the white wall and the photographic lens.

Pontormo. Digital photographs from durational performance (dimensions variable) with performers and fabric against drywall. [Process pages: ink, photocopy of Pontormo’s Deposition (top, center), paper.]

Performance by Ale Nodarse Jammal (no. 1 and 2) with Kevin Koste (no. 3); photographs by Alexandros Koutsegorgas.