Salvo

"Intriguing, not a gentle image, given the harsh unyielding material that covers the figure's eyes. The full beard and closely cradled crucifix at the neck.. This conjures the image of a hostage - blindfolded and restrained - the despair so evident in posture and the dark colors of background and figure. Unsettling.. but brilliant."
~ Theresa Pope Church (American scientist)

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"There’s a certain roughness about Salvo, as if the man has been taken from a prison cell, blindfolded by bands of ragged mesh, a full-grown reddish-brown beard, head tilted forward, the cross of redemption around his neck, and placed against a wall to be executed by a salvo like the unfortunate victims in Goya’s The Third of May 1808. I have no idea what was in Macri’s mind when he created this image, but I’m willing to bet that he’s not depicting autobiography. If, given the title, the portrait arguably suggests a firing squad, I also sense a symbolically spiritual implication here. The man is blind to external reality and must look within himself and beyond the observable facts of reality to apprehend a larger purpose or significance."

Salvo, 2022
Photography: Chromogenic C-print
69 x 69 cm