NEW COLLECTION

This coming Sunday, we will be creating a new photographic series inspired by the interior family settings of 1940s-50s film noir, as well as the works of Edward Hopper.

Once again, we focus on the male nude—one of the main themes of our work. Someday, we will explain why this is so and how certain favorable circumstances led us to this subject matter.

We aim to recreate a scene where the models—two middle-aged women and two young men—portray roles that are reversed from what we are socially accustomed to. We work with ambiguity as an almost constant element in our pieces. While we develop a narrative to accompany each series and guide its production, we prefer to let the viewer decide or speculate on what is happening in the scene.

Often, the models do not know each other, and even for us, some are working together for the first time. This adds an extra layer of mystery to the chemistry that unfolds in the moment of the performative act. The theatrical and human aspects take precedence over technical coldness, making the set resemble a stage rather than a film studio.

For us, it is essential that, even in a static composition, the four characters truly feel what we are proposing—that they embrace their roles and, for a moment, immerse themselves in this atmosphere of uncertainty, eros, and a certain desolation that we seek to convey.

RUIZ&POLO

Barcelona, February 10, 2025.