Ismael Ivo's latest solo reflects his encounter with Robert Mapplethorpe and is at the same time a homage to the life work of the famous photographer. The performance consists of three parts:
Prison - the emancipation of the body, in the physical and spiritual senses.
Flowers - a hundred and fifty white calla, the flowers that are presented so forcefully in Mapplethorpe's photographic work.
Mortality - last solo on a small stela before a vast mirror.
Mapplethorpe divulged the look of desire at the black male body - Ismael Ivo continues this appraisal in his performance.
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