Her
APRIL 2021
Mark Arrigo is a Maltese-British photographer, filmmaker and published author. He started his career travelling the world making documentary films before settling in London to work in the British film industry where he builds new visual worlds, creating fashion films, music videos and advertising campaigns. He has co-written and directed two personal short films, the most recent, ‘Adnan’ is a BAFTA qualifier and has won multiple awards for ‘Best Film’ including ‘Best Global Short’ at SCAD Savanna Film Festival. A fashion and fine-art photographer, his work is known for being visually poetic and narrative-driven, it’s been published in the Sunday Times, Wonderland, Monocle and more.
her, is his first solo exhibition.
her captures the female form without subjecting the feminine to identity. Nameless, faceless and detached from the material world, the eye focuses instead on studying the movement and shape of a body. Painted white like a statue, somehow immortal and existing throughout time, the hair growing constantly, never being cut. Floating in a void, bright like stars in the night sky. Strong but fragile. The series invites the viewer into the transcended state.