Mynameismoon: Photography and Self-Playing
Mynameismoon, Montse Capel (born 1990 in Figueres) is a young self-confident woman. She stages herself in front of and behind the camera. Plays with erotic fantasies of then and now. Experiment with light and shadow, as well as black and white. Called MyNameIsmoon.
Montse Capel is 26 years. It comes from Figueres, the city of Surrealism. That shaped her early on: her pseudonym is “Moon”. The moon orbits the earth. He stands for the unconscious. For profound longing and dreams. “Give in to desire and indulge in your dreams.”
Intuition and Female Side
Self-awareness, intuition and the turn to the female side in it are the subject of their clear black and white photography. She is always her own model in a new context. The background, the environment, the light – everything in transition. you right in the middle. With a self-timer, she falls short of the moment, the mood, for a moment.
She is far away from the selfie of the Facebooker. But it’s also ironically trendy. The selfie is on everyone’s lips. This has been around for around 175 years – as an artistic self-portrait. Montse Capel is committed to this tradition.
Long before Facebook, Snapshat and Instagram, in front of smartphones, selfie bars and remote triggers, people staged themselves in front of their own camera. The phenomenon of photographing yourself is as old as photography – and corresponds to the innate curiosity to look at, to reflect, to recognize.
Your own body as an art object
The American has a big name in the recent history of art in this regard. Hannah Wilke (1940-1993). From the 1970s, she mostly used her own body as a subject and object in photographic works, videos, and performances.
Montse Capel treads similar paths. She is not a digital first-person shooter, but a demanding photo artist.
Montse Capel is not a digital first-person shooter, but a demanding photo artist.
Reinventing as an individual
She always wants to reinvent herself as an individual, catapult into other worlds and live the play of light and shadow…
We are looking forward to new perspectives.
Surely we will get a lot to see from mynameismon in the future!
