Série Zizi

The photographic series ‘Zizi’ (2013) by Jorge Molder (Lisbon, 1947) is displayed as five bands of colour against smooth, abstract and uniform surfaces. The apparent abstraction and smoothness of the resultant image, which traverses the five key moments of the light spectrum ― violet, blue, green, yellow and red ― is countered by the scratches that run across it and create textures that demonstrate the relationship between each photograph and the physical world. As is characteristic of the artist’s work, the title plays a fundamental role, offering clues for its interpretation. In this case the feline and feminine allusion of the name, which is suggestive and potentially seductive, contributes to make this work, in his words, a ‘small metaphor about the strangeness of its seduction’.