There's no 2 without 1! Two years after suppergiù 22 'CRASH!', the interplay of collisions and connections between the real and the artificial evolves once again.
In CRASH!, Luca Matarazzo's photographs portrayed female bodies clashing with Al-generated male nudes.
Now, with CRASSH!, the roles have been reversed: male bodies, captured by @__alessandrapace_ @marcelswann, and@matarazzoluca of
@badseedzine, merge with digitally generated female figures created by @suppergiu_magazine.
Traditional photography versus artificial intelligence.
Male body versus female body. But is it truly a contrast? Or rather a fusion, a visual embrace where boundaries blur and differences dissolve?
Bodies collapsing, molten plastic, steel skin.
"After being endlessly bombarded with road safety propaganda, it was almost a relief to find myself in a real accident."
Among the folds of twisted metal, another dance emerges.
Here, everything is mutation. Male and female, real and constructed, the tangible crushed against the glass of a digital windshield.
Photographic shots - raw, nude, pulsating - and unreal figures, generated, processed, impossible. Every image is an impact, and every impact is a revelation.
A chromed silence settles on the skin as fragments of light and pixels lodge in the void between collision and desire.
"Crash is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements of the world we live in." - J.G.
Ballard
CRASH! A mechanical breath reverberates.
CRASSH! The carnal echo that remains.