Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Simone WeilO…

Mysticism, spirituality and corporeal liberation meet in the studio for Rodriguezs powerful new series exploring control, purity and identity.

In O., acclaimed Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez strips down his choreographed, embodied approach to photography through a series that explores the free-fall of life, the construction of identity, and their connections with spiritual destiny. Influenced by French mystic thinker Simone Weil, Rodriguez draws a line between his stripped-down portraits and Weils lifes work, in search of purity and the relationship between suffering and transcendence. The title of the book the letter O speaks to this transcendence between a noise, a gasp, an exhale, a cycle, all sounds, an open symbol, a zero, a reset.

Using a cast of different bodies, ages, backgrounds and identi