BODY COPY

2019-20

In this series of 37 constructed self-portraits Moreno responds to found texts on male same-sex hook-up sites.

The artist obsessively scours apps and websites for adverts which are notably specific and which are within the scope of their physical characteristics. They then take the text of the advert - which becomes the title of the picture - and attempt to create an "ideal" response to it through self-portrait.

Acting as stylist, set decorator, subject and photographer, each image is made on a shoe-string budget in a corner of their flat.

Moreno is in recovery from a body dysmorphic and eating disorder, and the project originated as a way of addressing the crisis of being photographed and of seeing themselves.

Moving beyond the psychotherapeutic, the series explores how queer masculinities are unstable constructions, rooted in material and digital cultures and inextricably linked to the interests of neoliberalism.

EXHIBITIONS

2021 Photofusion, London, UK (solo show)

2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia

2020 Singapore International Photo Festival

2020 Copenhagen Photo Festival (physical show cancelled due to Covid-19)

2020 Emergentes at Encontros da Imagem, Portugal

PUBLICATIONS

2021 LOUPE, issue 12 (cover and lead feature)

2021 Photomonitor, exhibition review by Ricardo Reveron Blanco

2019 British Journal of Photography, issue 7890