"Körpergewicht"
This photograph by Alexander Palacios captures a human form at the precise threshold between gravity and grace. A nude figure, tensioned between a grounded arm and uplifted legs, seems to float suspended across the axis of a chair. The industrial setting, with its raw walls and wooden floor, contrasts with the vulnerability of the body, lending the image a quiet violence and poetic stillness.
The pose challenges physical limits while suggesting emotional surrender. The subject is both grounded and weightless, caught in a moment that defies categorization between collapse and elevation, bondage and liberation. The lines of the limbs echo architectural minimalism, while light and shadow draw attention to the body’s sculptural qualities.
This is not just a study of form it is an inquiry into balance, into control and its surrender. The chair becomes a paradox: both support and limitation. We are left to wonder has the body risen or fallen? Is this exhaustion or rebirth?
Like performance frozen in time, "Körpergewicht" invites the viewer into a moment where the body becomes language, silent, powerful, unresolved.
300 x 150 cm Masterpiece Material on request.
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Alexander Palacios
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Artist Photographer in Basel Alexander Palacios CH
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