Inneres auge
Portrait of the artist as a young man seen as a narration of the post-university limbo caught just for a moment in the suspension and depth of a closed-eye gaze.
Inneres Auge is a visual project begun in October 2009 in Milan, the city that has given courage and the chance to many young creative people to transform their passion into their work. Pavlove looked for them to portray them in their environment: musicians, designers, stylists, photographers and actors opened their door and accepted to close their eyes to offer their internal gaze.
This is how Pavlove could observe the subjects in the intimacy of their spaces and catch the essence of this relationship. The closed eyes are the distinctive element of the project, the particular that in every image strikes us immediately. The closing of one’s gaze towards the external world, that inspires but also disturbs the creative work, coincides with the opening of the vision towards an interior spaceallowing the meditation necessary to creation.
Pavlove composed pictures in which spaces seem motionless and perfectly blended with the figure that dwells in them, and this stillness of the interiors contrasts with the city's frenzy outside. In frames are included objects and particulars which unobtrusively suggest us something about each personality. Details that balance the absence of a visual contact with the subjects, which usually we use to guess something about the people we meet.
So we are brought to look for clues in the position, in the expression, in the balance with the surrounding objects. This is how all the image becomes the mirror of a creative personality, hidden for an instant behind the eyelids. In a city where many visual stimuli force us to look around us, Pavlove's shots invite us to look inside us and to reveal the identity of the creative work that needs introspection and concentration.
Let's try to close our eyes as well and to believe in the possibility of expressing our imagination, rejecting the commonplace about the incapacity of the young of building their own future. Pavlove's portaits managed to do this.
Text by Arianna Malacrida.
